"Oscar-winning Edmund Gwenn was the only actor to win an Oscar for playing Santa Claus.Plot SynopsisOpening Title Credits:During the opening credits, on the streets of New York City on Thanksgiving Day, the camera tracked and followed an unidentified gentleman as he walked along various sidewalks.The ramshackle film, originally titledThe Great Man, is filled with Fields"" brand of silliness and buffoonery.And then Ray hypothesized that the voice came from discredited "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), a member of the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox baseball team that hrew the World Series.The film - a noirish, dark blockbuster epic film - was a critical and financial success, earning over $411 million in box office totals (worldwide) and $251.