F or more than 75 years, George Seaton’s Miracle on 34th Street has been a go-to holiday classic. Starring Maureen O’Hara as Doris Walker, John Payne as Fred Gailey, Edmund Gwenn as Kris ...

Miracle on 34th Street is considered by many to be one of the best holiday movies ever made. But while filming the 1947 movie Natalie Wood really did think her co-star, Edmund Gwenn, was Santa ...

LOS ANGELES — In Hollywood, Santa Claus comes in all stripes, from the childlike Edmund Gwenn in “Miracle on 34th Street” to North Pole draftee Tim Allen in “The Santa Clause” flicks to ...

HO HO HO Edmund Gwenn gave us the cinema's most popular Santa - the twinkly-eyed, garrulous Kris Kringle whose identity is doubted by the young Natalie Wood in "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947).

“Oh, Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind,” Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) tells the second-grader Susan Walker (Natalie Wood) in the perennial holiday classic Miracle on 34th Street ...

T he spirit of the holiday season is wrapped up in a cultural history that counts Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey and Edmund Gwenn’s Kris Kringle among its icons. There is something about this ...

Legend has it that when screenwriter George Seaton visited old-time character actor Edmund Gwenn as he lay on his deathbed, he said, “This must be terribly difficult for you.” Gwenn reportedly ...