One day, Kris has lunch with seventeen-year-old Alfred, a janitor who plays Santa at the YMCA. Although Kris makes no promises, he does agree to try to get it for her. That night, Susan reveals to Kris that she wants a real house for Christmas and shows him a magazine picture of her dream house. Fred, having seen the positive effect that Kris has on Susan, offers to let the old man stay with him. He further suggests that Kris live closer to the store until his job ends. Pierce counters by saying that Kris suffers from a delusion for good and insists that he is not dangerous. Kris passes his psychological tests, but the bad-tempered Sawyer recommends his dismissal anyway. Pierce, the head of the Brook's Home for Old People, where Kris lives. Afterward, Shellhammer dissuades Doris from firing Kris and suggests that she have him evaluated by Sawyer, the personnel director. Learning that he has given his name as Kris Kringle, Doris becomes afraid that he is insane and is about to dismiss him when store owner Macy praises her and Shellhammer for developing the new policy he believes they have instituted. Doris then asks Kris to tell Susan who he really is and when he insists that he is Santa, she asks to see his employment card. While they quarrel, Susan witnesses Kris speaking Dutch to a Dutch orphan and begins to think that Kris may really be Santa Claus. Later, when Fred brings Susan to visit Santa, Doris, who was disillusioned by a bad marriage to Susan's father, chastises him for filling her head with myths and fairy tales. Shellhammer is about to fire Kris, when one of the mothers thanks him for putting the Christmas spirit back into the holiday and vows to do all her shopping at Macy's. Shellhammer, the head of the toy department, advises Kris to suggest certain toys to indecisive children, Kris instead tells harried mothers where to find the toys their children want, even if it is not at Macy's. Because of his successful portrayal of Santa during the parade, Kris is hired to be Macy's store Santa. Later, at Fred's instigation, Susan wrangles an invitation for him to join them for Thanksgiving dinner. Doris joins them, thanks Fred for his kindness to Susan, and learns that he has been cultivating a friendship with Susan in hopes of meeting her. When Doris, a widow, returns to her apartment, she discovers that her young daughter Susan is watching the parade from the apartment of their neighbor, lawyer Fred Gailey. Doris then hires Kris to substitute for the now unconscious Santa. In downtown Manhattan, Kris Kringle, a white-bearded man, protests to Doris Walker, the organizer of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, that the man who will portray Santa Claus is drunk.
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