Cast
- Maureen O'Hara as Doris Walker. O'Hara was initially reluctant to take the role, as she had returned to Ireland. However, she immediately changed her mind after reading the script and came back to America for the film.
- John Payne as Frederick M. Gailey
- Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle
- Natalie Wood as Susan Walker
- Porter Hall as Granville Sawyer
- William Frawley as Charlie Halloran
- Jerome Cowan as District Attorney Thomas Mara
- Philip Tonge as Julian Shellhammer
- Alvin Greenman as Alfred
- Gene Lockhart as The Hon. Henry X. Harper
- Harry Antrim as R. H. Macy
- Herbert H. Heyes as Mr. Gimbel
- James Seay as Dr. Pierce, a geriatrics physician at the Brooks Memorial Home for the Aged
- Thelma Ritter as a harried shopper
- Percy Helton as the drunken Santa Claus stand-in the parade
- Ann Staunton as Mrs. Mara
- Bobby Hyatt as Thomas Mara, Jr.
- Jack Albertson (uncredited) as the post office employee
- Robert Shaw (uncredited) as the taxi driver
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