Kris Kringle, an Americanized pronunciation and spelling of Christkindl
When the real Kris Kringle inadvertently is hired to represent jolly St. Nick in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, he must convince the child and her cynical divorced mother (the department store's special events director) that he's the genuine article.
Christkind or Christkindl, the Austrian and German Christmas gift-bringer, the Christ Child
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Secret Santa, a gift exchange deriving from the Christkindl tradition
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Santa Claus, by assimilation in the United States of the separate German tradition
She made a memorable impression in a brief uncredited part, as a frustrated mother unable to find the toy that Kris Kringle has promised her son.
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In the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street, two mail sorters handle a letter addressed to "Kris Kringle" at the New York City courthouse, and decide to deliver all the Santa Claus mail now in the dead letter office to the courthouse, where a man calling himself Kris Kringle is facing a mental competency hearing.