Last night's AMC airing of Miracle On 34th Street reminded me of this discussion from earlier this year.  Throughout the broadcast various Movie Notes appeared at the bottom of the screen citing information about the stars, filming the movie, and other assorted bits of trivia.

I found one of these notes particularly interesting.  It stated that John Payne had written a sequel to Miracle On 34th Street, but it never found its way to production.  Wouldn't you love to have seen that made?  I wonder if the storyline involved Doris and Fred getting married and living in that house, or if it was completely unrelated to the characters in the original.  How sad that we'll never know.

Jim,

In Maureen O'Hara's autobiography she said that she and John Payne had been talking about doing a sequel to Miracle on 34th Street for years and that he did eventually write a screenplay but died before he ever sent it to her. No details are known about the screenplay he wrote. I even asked Alvin Greenman (who played Alfred in the film) and even he didn't know the details.

Susan:

The original script to Miracle on 34th Street has not been lost. Whoever said that was wrong. In fact, a member of our message board, Bob Grippo (aka Maxx151), consulted the original script extensively for his books on Macy's and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

For the book on Macy's, Click Here; and for the book on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Click Here.

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