This is 1947. Tens of millions of people were affected by WWII, including orphans like this girl. Imagine losing both your parents and just being happy to tell Santa you’re thankful you were adopted.
I've often wondered if her real parents were Holocaust victims given the way her adoptive Mom pauses after saying she's been living in an orphan's home in Rotterdam since...then says "we've adopted her"
Translation. Santa: I''m happy that you came to visit me. Dutch girl: You really are sinterklaas (sinterklaas: A dutch tradition where santa claus is based on). Santa: I sure am. Dutch girl: I knew you would understand. Santa: Of course. You can tell me what ever you want from santa claus. Dutch girl: I want nothing. I allready got alot of things. The only thing I want is to be with this lovely lady. Santa: Do you want to sing something for me? Dutch girl/santa: Sings a dutch song about sinterklaas I am sorry if my english isn't good. I am a dutch person
Translation of the song: Sinterklaas Kapoentje ("Kapoentje" is necessary to make this song rhyme. Lesser known fact is that it literally means "castrated rooster", probably because Sinterklaas is a celibate bishop) Give something in my shoe Give something in my boot Thank you Sinterklaas
"I want nothing. I allready got alot of things. The only thing I want is to be with this lovely lady" That is the best feedback that a child can give for a foster parent.
@@thebuzzahEither from the Bombing of Rotterdam, which not only flattened swathes of the city, but killed hundreds of people and made homeless thousands more. It could also allude to reprisals for anti-German resistance or the Holocaust.
Please remember that this movie was released 2 years after WWII had ended. She was from the Netherlands. Her mother may have not abandoned her, but died in the war.
The mother explicitly says the girl is from Rotterdam, a city subjected to a devastating german bombing raid in 1940, most people post war would have needed no further explanation (the mother also sighs in a pointed manner)
@@chrisorrill7183 I think Kevin Scully was only pointing out that Mary Field, herself an adoptee who lost a mother, would have a personal understanding of how it feels to lose a parent. Whatever the circumstances of a child's parental loss, it is still deeply tragic & a never to be abandoned pain.
This always makes me teary. Especially when the woman said "she has been living in a orphan's home in Rotterdam ever since. . ." Not many American understand how brutal in violence and starvation the occupation of the Netherlands was in WWII.
I remember there was a children's book that was featured on Reading Rainbow (wish I could think of the name of it) which was about a pen pal in the United States who was writing to a Dutch girl and they talked about how bad things were in the Netherlands so the girl from the USA sent her things like chocolates, shoes, and clothes to help her and her family out. In the end the Dutch girl's family sends her over some tulip bulbs so she can plant them and think of her pen pal.
The cutest part of this is her adoptive mum smile when the little girl says that she doesn't want any toys because she has new parents :-) I also think it's adorable how teary eyed the mum gets because the little girl gets a Christmas experience just like everyone else xxx
I find this more touching than the deaf girl in the remake. Why? Because the deaf girl said she wanted a doll and a bear, but the Dutch girl said she didn't want anything now that she has her new mom and dad. One didn't have to know Dutch to see that.
I think they're both equal. I think it's beautifully touching how the Dutch girl is completely happy with her new mother. In the remake though, that was all improv. The deaf girl was actually deaf, and she had no idea that Richard Attenborough was going to sign to her. Her reaction when he did was genuine. So when she said she wanted a doll and a bear for Christmas, that was the actress talking, that wasn't just the script.
I like both, but I prefer the 1994 version with the hearing impaired girl because children with hearing deficits are at risk for social isolation, due to their disability. To have a Santa sign for a child who cannot hear was heartwarming.
@Randy Welsh Santa speaking Dutch to a Nazi realm survivor was also heartwarming. I said I liked both versions. However, for people who are deaf, they are always socially isolated because not everyone knows sign language. True, people who speak a different language other than the country's native one is also socially isolated, but more people are willing to learn another language rather than learn sign language, therefore, foreign speakers can break social barriers more easily.
My Dad always watched this with me every year and I never knew why he got so misty eyed at this part. I would ask him and he would say some day you will understand. I was eleven and studying WWII when I realized what it meant and I burst into tears. I still do every time I watch this movie and it just proves how a well made movie can have such a life long effect on people without preaching, just a wonderful moment.
The look on Natalie Woods face is priceless....she knows her mother hired this guy to play Santa Claus at Macy’s, but there is something special about this man...the little Dutch Girl was a war orphan...her parents were killed either in the bombing of Rotterdam, or maybe liquidated by the Gestapo or SS for being in the Dutch underground....she is lucky to get out of war-torn Europe alive...she doesn’t speak a word of English, but she was SURE that Sinter-Klaas would know her...and she was right....they sang together in Dutch...Little Natalie is sharp as a tack, but she can’t get over this....mind blown...
My grandmother was dutch and used to sing that exact same song. That brought a lot of memories back, and can almost imagine her as that little girl. Did not expect when I played this video.
That look that Edmund Gwenn gets when the mother says "she just came over" is the best acting ever. That one look tells you all you need to know about what the Luftwaffe did to Rotterdam. Speaks volumes. My favorite scene.
Yes, you are so right. A lot of people alive today do not know the history, but my own dear late father was so traumatized by what he saw while in the Army in Europe in WWII, where he was wounded, healed, and then went back to fight some more, he never talked about it. Ever. Like so many other veterans of that era. We need to know our own history, people, in order to understand the world. When we forget the lessons that history teaches us, it repeats itself. Exhibit A: Donald J. Trump. Thank GOD he will be out of office on 1/20/21 and will forever be disgraced and disdained in the eyes of history.
I wish we today could get a real sense of life during WWII just to get some real perspective on how bad life can be. Even in the US where there was no battles, many were serving, those at home were working, there was rationing, recycle and bond drives, families losing members and so forth. We've really turned into a nation of whiners expecting someone else or the government to fix our lives.
This scene always brings me to tears. That look of complete awe and happiness on the little girl when Santa begins speaking in Dutch makes my heart happy.
I have loved this movie since I was a little girl, and I enjoyed this scene. Of course, I didn't realize until I was older why the little girl was an orphan who had been adopted. It makes the scene more powerful when you think of what that child, and children all over the world, had been through 😢
I watched this after many years having learnt a little bit of Dutch and about SinterKlaas and of course what happened to Rotterdam. This moves me to tears every time I watch it.
The look on the little girl's face at 00:07 is just heart-wrenching. What horrors she must have seen, the hope and spirit almost gone out of her. And then Santa.
This is the scene that made my mother tear-up. She'd have been 11 years old when she first saw this movie in '47 and I was privileged, thinking of it now, to see my mother's childhood memories come to the surface
Agreed. Real movies, with things like plot, intelligent writing, character development, and story arc, have given way to eye candy and special effects.
I was born in Delft, Holland in 1959, and we moved to the USA when I was 6. It's been many years since I've seen this movie clip, and I still understand it. My mother always spoke Dutch to me, and I'm sure that helped my language retention. One of several lifetimes ago for me.
I have to admit; this is one of my favorite scenes in this classic. More than any other scene, this one with the war orphan, has the most plausible history, given the number of actual orphans from World War II, which had just ended two years earlier.
A truly UNFORGETTABLE scene in a memorable movie!! Edmund Gwenn is my most favorite Santa Claus that I have ever seen in a movie and I LOVED Natalie Wood in this movie, also, especially in this scene.
@@johnmatuszak3252 I also LOVED Natalie in this movie and she gave one of the BEST childhood acting performances ever in this beloved movie. And the young actress who played the Dutch girl in this scene was so charming, too. Yes, we lost Natalie much too soon in this life.
Holy shit, apart from the accent they got the Dutch language spot on! Grammar and all! Even calling Santa 'Sinterklaas' as he's known in Dutch. (Santa actually is a derivative from Sinterklaas but that's another story). I'm very, Very impressed. Please send this to the producers of Friends and Designated Survivor to show 'em how it' s done!
Back when in movies....you actually did everything possible to make the story flawless, no shortcuts. In the newspaper scenes (where they announce Kris Kringle on trial) they ACTUALLY wrote newspaper articles.
One of my favorite joyful tear-jerker movie moments of all time - but...I also love the follow up dialogue between Susan and her mother: [Doris is trying to convince Susan there is no Santa Claus] Susan Walker: But when he spoke Dutch to that girl... Doris Walker: Susan, I speak French, but that doesn't make me Joan of Arc.
It's a wonderful scene. When the girl's adopted mother says "after...you know..." she is referring to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and obviously the natural parents were killed during it. And you do not have to speak Dutch to understand that when sinterklaas (the Dutch Santa Claus) asks her what she would like for Christmas, she replies that she does not want anything more other than to be with her new mother.
All due respect, not ‘obviously killed.’ MANY ended up in displaced persons camps, and it took months/years to find out ‘who’s still alive?’ And ‘what’s next?” Otto Frank, the father of famous diarist Anne Frank, was liberated from Auschwitz in early 1945. It took until the end of the year to find out he was the only survivor. And until i saw a translation in a comment thread above, i had no idea what they were saying to each other.
You're just a kid? Well, you give me hope for the next generation, because you picked one of the finest scenes from one of the finest Christmas movies ever made.
The scene is very deep, but as it's not subtitled much of it's impact is lost on those who don't speak Dutch. It's the reason many prefer the modern version with the Deaf Girl, which is nowhere near as profound but is universal
As numerous others have pointed out, the Dutch-speaking aspect of the scene arises from the historical context, specifically Rotterdam, in early post-WWII. Thus, the newer version's replacing her with a deaf girl ignores the true significance of the scene.Furthermore, the replacement evidences not only Hollywood's inability or unwillingness to understand world history to those outside the U.S., but also to transfer that ignorance to an audience who needs no further discouragement from learning about history from an international perspective.
One of the most touching movies of all time. The magic of love and faith in all that is good and right in the world. Santa Claus is a representation of this good. Santa knows every language, every child is precious, and no deformity or handicap or misfortune diminishes that preciousness. I always tear up a little every time I see this scene.
I am a Belgian, so I speak Dutch as well, and it is very surprising and fresh to hear almost perfectly Dutch spoken by Americans. I'm serious! Even though I could hear the English accent very faintly, if they were in Belgium or Holland, they could have good conversations with that!
Wat leuks!! Breng tranen naar mien ogen wat geweldig dat Nederlands gesproken is en redelijk ook nog!!! Zulk aole film maar toch ontzettend bijzonder!!!!
I once had dad translate this part of the movie for me. I did get to hear my aunt's great-grandchildren sing this song to her when she was in a nursing home.
I like both versions but the original is still my favourite. Both this version with the Dutch girl and the Deaf girl in the later version are such beautiful scenes.
This must've been a big scene at the time it was released. America still had a lot of war refugees and immigrants who had fled fascism at the time. This probably brought a tear to the eyes of some folks who had just come to the US, the idea that even in a strange land Christmas could still be something you could enjoy in your mother tongue.
Considering this was right after WWII (1947 to be exact) another layer of sadness is added in what the young girl might have seen back in Europe. It makes it all the more beautiful to see how happy she is when Sinterklaas is able to speak to her. 🥲
Another postwar reference was in the line Galey gives Kris before they get into bed. "It's a nice apartment, Fred", and Galey answers, "Was I lucky to get it!". The post-war housing shortage in NYC was extreme and some were living an undeveloped land in surplus Kwonset huts.
This is my favorite, my absolute favorite Christmas movie. I tried to find it every year. This is the true meaning of Christmas love, Hope joy and the idea that forever will be in my heart
Aside from how touching it is to see Mr. Kringle speak to the little Dutch girl, it's equally heartfelt in how the mother can only smile and shake her head in joyous disbelief of how it's too good to be true; that Mr. Kringle really is Santa Claus/Sinterklass. Really helped to set the stage further for little Susan Walker having doubts about her upbringing of fantasies. Intriguing how soon thereafter we see the crux of the whole mindset due to Doris Walker once having fantasies regarding her ex-husband as being the cause of her cynicism and embittered perspective of the world. Thank goodness Mr. Kringle came into their lives with his charm, his kindness, his gentleness of soul, showing them how their cynicism was only making them miserable, and by letting go of such views and appreciating what Mr. Kringle represented, they would become happier people.
Back in 2012 I did the subtitles for this movie and included the Dutch translation of the little girls encounter with Sinterklaasje. Here's the dialogue: - Hello, I am happy you came! - Ooh! You ARE Sinterklaasje! - Well, yes of course! - I knew it, I knew you would understand me. - Of course! Tell me what you would like to get from Sinterklaasje. - Nothing! I already have everything! I just want to stay with this lovely lady. - Do you want to sing something for me? - Sinterklaasje Little Rascal, Put something in my little shoe, - Put something in my little boot, Thank you, Sinterklaasje! - Sinterklaasje Little Rascal Put something in my little shoe, - Put something in my little boot, Thank you, Sinterklaasje!
Seeing the joy on her little face when Kris speaks Dutch to her, and the love when she looks at her adopted mother, makes me tear up too, thinking of what she must have been through in the war 😢
It kind of does not matter which version of this movie you see. It was so well written that it almost can't be ruined, no matter how it is made. That being the case, this version is the absolute best version of this movie. The casting was brilliant. You do believe this guy is Santa Claus. The movie has magic.
Years ago AMC played this flim 24hours for Christmas. This scene comes in around the 20 minute mark. I would stop what I was doing and catch this scene several times. Always loved it.
This is one of my favorite scenes in this movie. I also love the part where Susie is talking to Santa and she doesn't believe that is beard is real so he says, "Go ahead, pull it!"
This is 1947. Tens of millions of people were affected by WWII, including orphans like this girl. Imagine losing both your parents and just being happy to tell Santa you’re thankful you were adopted.
😪😪😪
Imagine the magic that child felt, probably a rare occasion, when she saw the real Sinterklaas speak her language
Actually filmed in 1946.
@@ADAMSIXTIES a difference making no difference
I've often wondered if her real parents were Holocaust victims given the way her adoptive Mom pauses after saying she's been living in an orphan's home in Rotterdam since...then says "we've adopted her"
Translation.
Santa: I''m happy that you came to visit me.
Dutch girl: You really are sinterklaas (sinterklaas: A dutch tradition where santa claus is based on).
Santa: I sure am.
Dutch girl: I knew you would understand.
Santa: Of course. You can tell me what ever you want from santa claus.
Dutch girl: I want nothing. I allready got alot of things. The only thing I want is to be with this lovely lady.
Santa: Do you want to sing something for me?
Dutch girl/santa: Sings a dutch song about sinterklaas
I am sorry if my english isn't good. I am a dutch person
Thank you.
You're welcome
Jolijn I just wanted to let you know that your translation of this scene is spot on! Wel done Jolijn, wel done!
Translation of the song:
Sinterklaas Kapoentje ("Kapoentje" is necessary to make this song rhyme. Lesser known fact is that it literally means "castrated rooster", probably because Sinterklaas is a celibate bishop)
Give something in my shoe
Give something in my boot
Thank you Sinterklaas
Thank you for the translation
"I want nothing. I allready got alot of things. The only thing I want is to be with this lovely lady"
That is the best feedback that a child can give for a foster parent.
Adoptive parent
Just beautiful.
No reason people can’t start making these kinds of movies again.
No wonder her mom looked so touched
In the history of movies, no played Santa Claus better than Edmund Gwenn who so richly deserved the Oscar for his amazing performance.
I absolutely agree with you! And never has another actor came close to his portrayal of Santa Claus
What about Richard Attenborough
roxy hart Richard Attenborough definitely had his own take on the role, he definitely had the jolly spirit and twinkle in his eye.
Agree best Christmas movie and Santa ever
The perfect Santa Claus/Sinterklaas.
Just perfect.
My mother was an orphan in The Netherlands. Showed her this clip and she started to sing along!
The sadness in her beautiful face and the way she lights up when he starts speaking to her in Dutch is pure beauty
Is it suggesting her parents perished from the Nazis?
@@thebuzzahEither from the Bombing of Rotterdam, which not only flattened swathes of the city, but killed hundreds of people and made homeless thousands more. It could also allude to reprisals for anti-German resistance or the Holocaust.
It certainly is! It is so touching. Oh and btw, it's nice to see someone else who loves Hello Kitty!
Her sadness makes me cry but then my heart fills with joy the moment she first smiles when she she hears Santa speak Dutch🙂
Nahhh--just good acting.
The young actress, Marlene Lyden, was American. She learned her Dutch lines by rote. What a seriously talented young lady.
Thank you for giving her name. It's what I was searching for. This scene is deeply touching, and I could wear out my VHS tape watching it.
that's awesome!
Marta Bergen I've been trying to find out her name for ages! Probably my favorite all time movie scene!
Yea, you can tell she has a weird accent.
The Dutch isn't perfect but definitely impressive for a girl her age
Subtle yet powerful scene. The actress who played the girl's adoptive mother, Mary Field was adopted after being abandoned by her birth mother.
Please remember that this movie was released 2 years after WWII had ended. She was from the Netherlands. Her mother may have not abandoned her, but died in the war.
The mother explicitly says the girl is from Rotterdam, a city subjected to a devastating german bombing raid in 1940, most people post war would have needed no further explanation (the mother also sighs in a pointed manner)
Read the comment again. It refers to the actress who plays the little girl's mother.
@@chrisorrill7183 I think Kevin Scully was only pointing out that Mary Field, herself an adoptee who lost a mother, would have a personal understanding of how it feels to lose a parent. Whatever the circumstances of a child's parental loss, it is still deeply tragic & a never to be abandoned pain.
Lotsa whores & druggie in the Netherlands.
This always makes me teary. Especially when the woman said "she has been living in a orphan's home in Rotterdam ever since. . ." Not many American understand how brutal in violence and starvation the occupation of the Netherlands was in WWII.
Thank you for sharing ❤
I remember there was a children's book that was featured on Reading Rainbow (wish I could think of the name of it) which was about a pen pal in the United States who was writing to a Dutch girl and they talked about how bad things were in the Netherlands so the girl from the USA sent her things like chocolates, shoes, and clothes to help her and her family out. In the end the Dutch girl's family sends her over some tulip bulbs so she can plant them and think of her pen pal.
@@littlesongbird1 It is a little known part of WWII history. The Nazis destroyed the Netherlands' economy. The people starved.
@@JR-bj3uf I know...:-(
Even in Europe, people never talk about the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg during World War II. I don't know why, because we should.
The cutest part of this is her adoptive mum smile when the little girl says that she doesn't want any toys because she has new parents :-) I also think it's adorable how teary eyed the mum gets because the little girl gets a Christmas experience just like everyone else xxx
I find this more touching than the deaf girl in the remake. Why? Because the deaf girl said she wanted a doll and a bear, but the Dutch girl said she didn't want anything now that she has her new mom and dad. One didn't have to know Dutch to see that.
Especially because of the time this movie was set in. Right after the Holocaust. I cant imagine what happened to that poor girl's parents.
I think they're both equal. I think it's beautifully touching how the Dutch girl is completely happy with her new mother. In the remake though, that was all improv. The deaf girl was actually deaf, and she had no idea that Richard Attenborough was going to sign to her. Her reaction when he did was genuine. So when she said she wanted a doll and a bear for Christmas, that was the actress talking, that wasn't just the script.
Hazel Grey I need to find the article for this...
I like both, but I prefer the 1994 version with the hearing impaired girl because children with hearing deficits are at risk for social isolation, due to their disability. To have a Santa sign for a child who cannot hear was heartwarming.
@Randy Welsh Santa speaking Dutch to a Nazi realm survivor was also heartwarming. I said I liked both versions. However, for people who are deaf, they are always socially isolated because not everyone knows sign language. True, people who speak a different language other than the country's native one is also socially isolated, but more people are willing to learn another language rather than learn sign language, therefore, foreign speakers can break social barriers more easily.
My Dad always watched this with me every year and I never knew why he got so misty eyed at this part. I would ask him and he would say some day you will understand. I was eleven and studying WWII when I realized what it meant and I burst into tears. I still do every time I watch this movie and it just proves how a well made movie can have such a life long effect on people without preaching, just a wonderful moment.
Well said
It's her eyes. She is so defeated walking in there and just wants to feel normal.
@@billybussey So true, that little girl was so wonderful and the way they cut back and forth between she and Susan was masterful.
Many US soldiers saw death and destruction in WWII Europe especially what it did to the local families.
The look on Natalie Woods face is priceless....she knows her mother hired this guy to play Santa Claus at Macy’s, but there is something special about this man...the little Dutch Girl was a war orphan...her parents were killed either in the bombing of Rotterdam, or maybe liquidated by the Gestapo or SS for being in the Dutch underground....she is lucky to get out of war-torn Europe alive...she doesn’t speak a word of English, but she was SURE that Sinter-Klaas would know her...and she was right....they sang together in Dutch...Little Natalie is sharp as a tack, but she can’t get over this....mind blown...
Little Natalie is so cute and you can see is so taken by this moment. Its an amazing and heartfelt scene
Sigh, when Hollywood still had magic...
Or got deported, killed, murdered even if they were not maybe they survived but lost their child due to the war
My grandmother was dutch and used to sing that exact same song. That brought a lot of memories back, and can almost imagine her as that little girl. Did not expect when I played this video.
That's awesome. Its a beautiful song
Every children at this time of the year sings this song these days. Even now the song didn’t changed
did you call your Dutch grandmother “Oma”? 😊
That look that Edmund Gwenn gets when the mother says "she just came over" is the best acting ever. That one look tells you all you need to know about what the Luftwaffe did to Rotterdam. Speaks volumes. My favorite scene.
The Luftwaffe, SS scum and Gestapo garbage did in Rotterdam!!
Yes, you are so right. A lot of people alive today do not know the history, but my own dear late father was so traumatized by what he saw while in the Army in Europe in WWII, where he was wounded, healed, and then went back to fight some more, he never talked about it. Ever. Like so many other veterans of that era. We need to know our own history, people, in order to understand the world. When we forget the lessons that history teaches us, it repeats itself. Exhibit A: Donald J. Trump. Thank GOD he will be out of office on 1/20/21 and will forever be disgraced and disdained in the eyes of history.
@@jannibal9273 You had to invoke your hatred while others are enjoying a beautiful scene from a movie. You democrats are a hateful despicable mob.
@@jannibal9273 Santa Claus to Donald Trump? Get a handle on your TDS.
I wish we today could get a real sense of life during WWII just to get some real perspective on how bad life can be. Even in the US where there was no battles, many were serving, those at home were working, there was rationing, recycle and bond drives, families losing members and so forth. We've really turned into a nation of whiners expecting someone else or the government to fix our lives.
This scene always brings me to tears. That look of complete awe and happiness on the little girl when Santa begins speaking in Dutch makes my heart happy.
I have loved this movie since I was a little girl, and I enjoyed this scene. Of course, I didn't realize until I was older why the little girl was an orphan who had been adopted. It makes the scene more powerful when you think of what that child, and children all over the world, had been through 😢
Of course the child's story is moving. But the mother's expression is equally touching.
Yes indeed! Santa speaks and understands every language all over the world! What a beautiful moment this was in the story! 🎅❤
i get teary eyed every time i see this...my favorite scene in my favorite xmas movie.
me three
Yup.....
Someone is cutting onions nearby...
I want so badly to like your comment more than once. I am in complete agreement.
I watched this after many years having learnt a little bit of Dutch and about SinterKlaas and of course what happened to Rotterdam. This moves me to tears every time I watch it.
The look on the little girl's face at 00:07 is just heart-wrenching. What horrors she must have seen, the hope and spirit almost gone out of her. And then Santa.
After so many years, this still brings a tear to my eyes.
This is the scene that made my mother tear-up. She'd have been 11 years old when she first saw this movie in '47 and I was privileged, thinking of it now, to see my mother's childhood memories come to the surface
The mark of an excellent movie is that after thousands of veiwings a scene like that can still touch you.
Kills me every time. Also shows a young Natalie Wood doing her trademark "I'm intrigued" look.
I've seen this movie dozens of times and I still cry like a baby at this part!
Good on you.
This little girl was soooooo PRECIOUS, she made me cry!!!!
This is the kind of scene people have just forgotten how to make in movies.
Just needs a couple of CGI explosions, that's all.
Agreed. Real movies, with things like plot, intelligent writing, character development, and story arc, have given way to eye candy and special effects.
Why your name call aim just some Canada 🇨🇦 guy and I say
@@ernesthill2681 Crassness masquerading as honesty also takes center stage in movies today.
I was born in Delft, Holland in 1959, and we moved to the USA when I was 6. It's been many years since I've seen this movie clip, and I still understand it. My mother always spoke Dutch to me, and I'm sure that helped my language retention. One of several lifetimes ago for me.
I went go delft the other month beautiful place
I'm an American and I've been to Delft. Lovely.
The age of the "New" church made me laugh 🤣
I have to admit; this is one of my favorite scenes in this classic. More than any other scene, this one with the war orphan, has the most plausible history, given the number of actual orphans from World War II, which had just ended two years earlier.
My favorite scene in the movie. I guess I'm just an old softy, because this one gets me everytime.
This little actress did a phenomenal job.
One of the best Christmas movies ever!
One of the most beautiful scenes ever in any movie.
A truly UNFORGETTABLE scene in a memorable movie!! Edmund Gwenn is my most favorite Santa Claus that I have ever seen in a movie and I LOVED Natalie Wood in this movie, also, especially in this scene.
This is the movie that made me fall in love with Natalie Wood, another actor that we lost far to soon.
@@johnmatuszak3252 I also LOVED Natalie in this movie and she gave one of the BEST childhood acting performances ever in this beloved movie. And the young actress who played the Dutch girl in this scene was so charming, too. Yes, we lost Natalie much too soon in this life.
Holy shit, apart from the accent they got the Dutch language spot on! Grammar and all! Even calling Santa 'Sinterklaas' as he's known in Dutch. (Santa actually is a derivative from Sinterklaas but that's another story). I'm very, Very impressed. Please send this to the producers of Friends and Designated Survivor to show 'em how it' s done!
Back when in movies....you actually did everything possible to make the story flawless, no shortcuts. In the newspaper scenes (where they announce Kris Kringle on trial) they ACTUALLY wrote newspaper articles.
Monana was _Pennsylvania_ Dutch.
@@jb888888888 They weren't Dutch but German. Mistake in translation. Btw, they did have an accent and they made a few mistakes, but that's ok.
Edmund Gwenn was the best Santa Claus in my opinion.
I'm living in the Netherlands and this girl speaks and sings so goed in dutch and Edmund Gwenn speaks so good too.
My favorite Christmas movie and this is one of my favorite scenes in the movie.
The unexpected and quiet humanity of this scene allows an adult to recapture the notion of breathing Santa Claus, even if for only 69 seconds.
Nice
The scene is best scene in any Christmas movie. Period. Gets me teary-eyed every time!
+Richard Motroni same here
One of my favorite Christmas movies. There is nothing better than this version. 🎅🏻
I agree 100%.
@Indy girl i'm gonna use that😂
One of my favorite joyful tear-jerker movie moments of all time - but...I also love the follow up dialogue between Susan and her mother:
[Doris is trying to convince Susan there is no Santa Claus]
Susan Walker: But when he spoke Dutch to that girl...
Doris Walker: Susan, I speak French, but that doesn't make me Joan of Arc.
That's a beautiful bit of mood whiplash - from tearing up to cracking up! 😅
It's a wonderful scene. When the girl's adopted mother says "after...you know..." she is referring to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and obviously the natural parents were killed during it. And you do not have to speak Dutch to understand that when sinterklaas (the Dutch Santa Claus) asks her what she would like for Christmas, she replies that she does not want anything more other than to be with her new mother.
So beautiful..
All due respect, not ‘obviously killed.’
MANY ended up in displaced persons camps, and it took months/years to find out ‘who’s still alive?’ And ‘what’s next?”
Otto Frank, the father of famous diarist Anne Frank, was liberated from Auschwitz in early 1945.
It took until the end of the year to find out he was the only survivor.
And until i saw a translation in a comment thread above, i had no idea what they were saying to each other.
The mom is thinking "this mall Santa takes his job SERIOUSLY."
They didn't have malls when this picture was made.
Not mom orphanage
@@beverlyarcher3744 adopted... adopted... adopted...
@@beverlyarcher3744 She said she was in an orphanage in Rotterdam until they adopted her. That's her mom.
Department Store Santa. Macy's, back when Macy's was something.
You're just a kid? Well, you give me hope for the next generation, because you picked one of the finest scenes from one of the finest Christmas movies ever made.
Great film. And the worst, oddest ending of any movie I can remember.
No matter how many times I've watched this in my 52yrs, I always get choked up at this scene!
The facial expression on the mother is so endearing.
Love this scene and how her eyes lit up when he was starting to speak Dutch to her and then sang a little song, too!
I pity anyone not moved by this scene
So you pity me ._.
RadCutie234 playz yes I do 😈
The scene is very deep, but as it's not subtitled much of it's impact is lost on those who don't speak Dutch. It's the reason many prefer the modern version with the Deaf Girl, which is nowhere near as profound but is universal
As numerous others have pointed out, the Dutch-speaking aspect of the scene arises from the historical context, specifically Rotterdam, in early post-WWII. Thus, the newer version's replacing her with a deaf girl ignores the true significance of the scene.Furthermore, the replacement evidences not only Hollywood's inability or unwillingness to understand world history to those outside the U.S., but also to transfer that ignorance to an audience who needs no further discouragement from learning about history from an international perspective.
I'm not crying, you're crying.😢
My favorite scene in the whole film, which is full of great scenes. So heartwrming.
I just saw this movie for the 1st time as an adult, and this scene brought tears to my eyes...so simple, yet so powerful
My eyes teared up at the girls expression when he spoke to her, just priceless
This was the scene that helped Edmund Gwen to win his Oscar.
One of the most touching movies of all time. The magic of love and faith in all that is good and right in the world. Santa Claus is a representation of this good. Santa knows every language, every child is precious, and no deformity or handicap or misfortune diminishes that preciousness. I always tear up a little every time I see this scene.
This is my all time FAVORITE Christmas movie. It's so heartwarming and little Natalie Woods ♥
This is one of the most touching scenes in a Christmas movie ever. Change my mind. 😎
I am a Belgian, so I speak Dutch as well, and it is very surprising and fresh to hear almost perfectly Dutch spoken by Americans. I'm serious! Even though I could hear the English accent very faintly, if they were in Belgium or Holland, they could have good conversations with that!
This is my absolute favorite part in this movie. It always makes me tear up
The 19 people that took the time to dislike this moment can go eat a bug
Great comment.
Well said.
May e they wanted subtitles? Was that a thing back then?
They don't deserve a bug ...
@Dave Jacobs So, it is only allowed to push the like button? You must be having a sad life for complaining about some like or dislike buttons.
So many memories of Christmas morning watching this. I'm 66 years old now and it still chokes me up.
This scene ALWAYS makes me cry. Especially when "Santa" begins to speak "dutch"! A very moving scene, indeed!
Wat leuks!! Breng tranen naar mien ogen wat geweldig dat Nederlands gesproken is en redelijk ook nog!!! Zulk aole film maar toch ontzettend bijzonder!!!!
Ja. Ik vind het ook prachtig. En dat accent maakt het nog veel schattiger. Vooral als ze zegt "ik wil bij deze lieve dame zijn" dat is echt superlief😍
This is the type of good family movies they use to make in Hollywood.
I once had dad translate this part of the movie for me. I did get to hear my aunt's great-grandchildren sing this song to her when she was in a nursing home.
My oma was born in germany in 1943 then came here with my great grandparents... this hits hard
I like both versions but the original is still my favourite. Both this version with the Dutch girl and the Deaf girl in the later version are such beautiful scenes.
The Dutch girl is adorable!
This scene where he speaks dutch all of the sudden to the little dutch girl as it surprises her and her face lights up in happiness. It makes me cry.
This must've been a big scene at the time it was released. America still had a lot of war refugees and immigrants who had fled fascism at the time. This probably brought a tear to the eyes of some folks who had just come to the US, the idea that even in a strange land Christmas could still be something you could enjoy in your mother tongue.
Considering this was right after WWII (1947 to be exact) another layer of sadness is added in what the young girl might have seen back in Europe. It makes it all the more beautiful to see how happy she is when Sinterklaas is able to speak to her. 🥲
What gets my waterworks going is her faith and delighted relief that Santa can of course speak and sing in Dutch.
Another postwar reference was in the line Galey gives Kris before they get into bed. "It's a nice apartment, Fred", and Galey answers, "Was I lucky to get it!". The post-war housing shortage in NYC was extreme and some were living an undeveloped land in surplus Kwonset huts.
This is my favorite, my absolute favorite Christmas movie. I tried to find it every year. This is the true meaning of Christmas love, Hope joy and the idea that forever will be in my heart
ALWAYS BRINGS A TEAR TO MY EYE! BEST SCENE OF THE MOVIE!!!
This scene makes me cry every time
The moment were Natalie Wood slowly starts to believe in Santa. Best moment for me.
My favorite scene in this great family film since I first saw it as a kid 50+ years ago. Still touching.
Aside from how touching it is to see Mr. Kringle speak to the little Dutch girl, it's equally heartfelt in how the mother can only smile and shake her head in joyous disbelief of how it's too good to be true; that Mr. Kringle really is Santa Claus/Sinterklass. Really helped to set the stage further for little Susan Walker having doubts about her upbringing of fantasies. Intriguing how soon thereafter we see the crux of the whole mindset due to Doris Walker once having fantasies regarding her ex-husband as being the cause of her cynicism and embittered perspective of the world. Thank goodness Mr. Kringle came into their lives with his charm, his kindness, his gentleness of soul, showing them how their cynicism was only making them miserable, and by letting go of such views and appreciating what Mr. Kringle represented, they would become happier people.
One of my FAVORITE Christmas movies of all time!!!!!!! I LOVE this movie!!!!!!
the best scene of the movie.
+alok kumar truly, truly
That little girl's face breaks my heart. Adopted yes, but all alone with no one to talk to....
Yea. One of my favorite scenes, since I first saw it back in the '50's. So heartwarming.
Never watched this scene without tearing up.
One of the best feel good movies ever made. If you need a pick me up, this will surely warm your heart a bit.
Back in 2012 I did the subtitles for this movie and included the Dutch translation of the little girls encounter with Sinterklaasje. Here's the dialogue:
- Hello, I am happy you came!
- Ooh! You ARE Sinterklaasje!
- Well, yes of course!
- I knew it, I knew you would understand me.
- Of course! Tell me what you
would like to get from Sinterklaasje.
- Nothing! I already have everything!
I just want to stay with this lovely lady.
- Do you want to sing something for me?
- Sinterklaasje Little Rascal,
Put something in my little shoe,
- Put something in my little boot,
Thank you, Sinterklaasje!
- Sinterklaasje Little Rascal
Put something in my little shoe,
- Put something in my little boot,
Thank you, Sinterklaasje!
The look on young Natalie's face. Amazing little actress.
This is the scene that made me fall in love with this movie.
What a lovely scene! I remember it well
That scene always gets me and brings tears to my eyes. She is greatful for her new life being adopted into a new family. 🎄🎁💑
Seeing the joy on her little face when Kris speaks Dutch to her, and the love when she looks at her adopted mother, makes me tear up too, thinking of what she must have been through in the war 😢
Being Dutch this is my favourite movie moment!
Natalie Wood's subtle reaction at 0:36 and 0:57 is ASTOUNDING acting for someone of that age! Such nuance!
OK so ... this brought tears to my eyes. I gotta watch this movie again. It's been too long.
THIS version is the best ... this scene alone is filled with more heart than the others
True!
Tears, every time I watch this again. What a wonderful scene!
Natalie Wood is adorable ❤
Always has been one of my favorite parts of this classic movie!
It kind of does not matter which version of this movie you see. It was so well written that it almost can't be ruined, no matter how it is made. That being the case, this version is the absolute best version of this movie. The casting was brilliant. You do believe this guy is Santa Claus. The movie has magic.
This movie will live as long as people watch movies; the remakes are so much worse.
Years ago AMC played this flim 24hours for Christmas. This scene comes in around the 20 minute mark. I would stop what I was doing and catch this scene several times. Always loved it.
This is one of my favorite scenes in this movie. I also love the part where Susie is talking to Santa and she doesn't believe that is beard is real so he says, "Go ahead, pull it!"
This is one of two movies I have to watch each Xmas. The other is "It's a Wonderful Life" .
My favorite scene from one of my favorite films! Thank you...
Holy Cow! A Christmas miracle. And cute little Natalie Wood was there to see it.