During post production on Miracle on 34th Street, while the film worked its way through editing, the company staged a cast and crew “wrap” party. It was there that everyone discovered Natalie Wood really did believe Edmund Gwenn was Santa Claus! Without his hairpiece, and having shaved his beard, and put on his glasses, he dropped all pretense of  being Santa Claus, and Natalie Wood was shocked! Her biographer reveals, “In fact Natalie thought Edmund Gwenn was, actually, Santa Claus, during the making of the film! It was iconoclastic for her, she thought he was Santa!”