Q 01/05

In the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street, who plays Kris Kringle?

A) Charles Coburn

B) Edmund Gwenn

C) Monty Woolley

D) Barry Fitzgerald

Answer · why

B) Edmund Gwenn

Edmund Gwenn made the part his own, returning to play Kris five more times on radio between 1947 and 1954; Hitchcock later cast him in The Trouble wit...

Q 02/05

How does Kris end up in the red suit at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?

A) He wins a contest

B) He is a Macy's employee

C) The hired man is drunk

D) Susan recommends him

Answer · why

C) The hired man is drunk

Kris finds the hired man is drunk and complains to Doris Walker, who puts him in the suit on the spot; he does so well that Macy's hires him for the s...

Q 03/05

Kris shocks his employers by sending a shopper to which rival store to find a fire engine?

A) Bloomingdale's

B) Gimbels

C) Saks

D) Wanamaker's

Answer · why

B) Gimbels

The rival stood a block away on Herald Square, and their feud gave America the phrase 'Does Macy's tell Gimbels?'

Q 04/05

In the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street, which actress plays Susan's mother, Doris Walker?

A) Gene Tierney

B) Loretta Young

C) Maureen O'Hara

D) Jeanne Crain

Answer · why

C) Maureen O'Hara

Maureen O'Hara had only just got back to Ireland after the war when Fox summoned her; reluctant at first, she changed her mind once she read the scrip...

Q 05/05

Which child star plays the sceptical Susan Walker in the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street?

A) Margaret O'Brien

B) Natalie Wood

C) Elizabeth Taylor

D) Peggy Ann Garner

Answer · why

B) Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood was eight and won acclaim in the part; she went on from child stardom to adult stardom in Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story.