Miracle on 34th Street (LXRT)

You know the story, at least I hope you do. A well-adjusted lawyer-bachelor lives a few doors down from an intelligent woman who is focused on her career as an event director for Macy's and on raising her daughter with a realistic view of the world. The woman hires a Santa for the department store and he turns out to be the real deal. The modern "eyes opened" world can't deal with a man who thinks (knows) he is really Santa, and Saint Nick ends up in court with the lawyer as his legal representation. Thus two battles are joined, one to rescue Santa from the psych-ward and one to kindle romance (literal and figurative) in the heart of the woman and her daughter.

One thing I have always liked about this story: there is no clear singular protagonist. Most would say it's the lawyer, I guess, but I feel like the story is divided pretty equally between the event director, the lawyer, and Santa.

LRT used the script previously on December 22, 1947 and subsequently on December 21, 1954.

Lux Radio Theater #647
Miracle on 34th Street
20 Dec 1948\
19481220(637)_LXRT_MiracleOn34thStreet.mp3
William Keighley (host), Edmund Gwenn, Joseph Kearns, Willard Waterman, Marlene Ames, William Johnstone, Herb Butterfield, Norman Field, Gil Stratton, Cliff Clark, Lawrence Dobkin, Louise Fitch, John McGovern, Sara Berner, Edward Marr, Herb Vigran, June Whitley, Jeanine Roos, George Seaton (screenwriter), Valentine Davies (author), Helena Sorrell (20th Century Fox diction coach: Intermission guest), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, John Milton Kennedy (announcer)