Does anyone know what movie has the line "Yes Virgina, there is a Santa Clause."?

Question

A professor at my college always says "Yes, Virginia...". He said that it came from a movie, but he can't remember the title.

Answer 1

The 1991 movie was called "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." There a cartoon before that. And, before that -- more than 100 years ago, there was an editorial, same title.

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Answer 2

Sorry it's so long. This is where the quote originated.

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:


Dear Editor,

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O'Hanlon


Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

There were also television specials in both 1974 and 1991 titled "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Clause."

Answer 3

Actually, it is a movie and cartoon by that name, "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Clause"........it's not Miracle on 34th Street. The little girl in Miracle's name is Susan.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103305/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392925/

Answer 4

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Answer 5

It may have been used as a title for a movie, but it was originally a newspaper column from the 30's (I think) in which a columnist was replying to a child's letter asking if Santa was real.

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Yes,_Virginia,_there_is_a_Santa_Claus

Answer 6

Its a famous columm from an newspaper. It was made into a cartoon and a tv movie. See below link for the actual article

Answer 7

Its Miracle on 34th street I think! Goodluck!

Answer 8

I think it's "Miracle on 34th Street"

Answer 9

Miracle on ____th Street (34th? 42nd?)

Answer 10

34th!!!!