The musical "Here's Love" was based on this 1947 film in which the real Kris Kringle is hired to work at Macy's
The 
Meredith Willson musical based on the 1947 movie of the same title ... (That idea 
proved to be a turkey: Here's Love closed eight weeks before the next Macy's ... 
a Macy's executive, has hired Kriss as the flagship store's Santa.