MIRACLE ON 34th STREET [under working title: IT’S ONLY HUMAN] (1947) Final screenplay by George Seaton, Jan 2, 1947

MIRACLE ON 34th STREET [under working title: IT’S ONLY HUMAN] (1947) Final screenplay by George Seaton, Jan 2, 1947. Story by Valentine Davies. Hollywood: 20th Century Fox, 1947. Vintage original film script, quarto, mimeograph, brad bound, printed wrappers, 149 pp., with 5 pp. of retakes bound in at end dated 3-30-47 and 3-21-47. Wear to lower spine and extremities of yapped covers, internally JUST ABOUT FINE in VERY GOOD- wrappers.

When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing. Set between Thanksgiving and Christmas Days, and perhaps the ultimate Christmas movie.