All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Maureen O'Hara, ranked

Kris Kringle is indignant to find that the man assigned to play Santa in the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is intoxicated. He does so well he is hired to play Santa at Macy’s flagship New York City store on 34th Street. Ignoring instructions from toy department head Julian Shellhammer to recommend overstocked items to undecided shoppers, Kris directs one woman to another store to fulfill her son’s Christmas request.

In the 1920s, Sean Trooper Thorn Thornton, an Irish-born retired boxer from Pittsburgh, travels to his birthplace of Inisfree to purchase back the old family farm. Shortly after arriving, he meets and falls in love with the fiery Mary Kate Danaher, the sister of the bullying Squire Red Will Danaher.

In 1482 Paris, France, Frollo, the Chief Justice of King Louis XI, becomes obsessed with the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. Meanwhile, Quasimodo, Frollo’s protégé and the bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives peacefully in the heights of the cathedral until Frollo involves him in his twisted plans to rid himself of Esmeralda, who he believes has cast a spell on him.

A young Huw, the youngest child of Gwilym Morgan, walks home with his father to meet his mother, Beth. Huw’s childhood is idyllic, the town, not yet overrun with mining spoil, is beautiful, and the household is warm and loving, the miners sing as they walk home (in this case Bread of Heaven in Welsh). Afterwards the spending money is given out.

Identical twins Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers meet at Miss Inch’s Summer Camp for Girls, unaware that they are sisters. Their identical appearance initially creates rivalry, and they pull pranks on each other. After discovering that they both come from single-parent homes, they soon realize they are twin sisters and that their parents, divorced shortly after their birth, with each parent having custody of one of them.

Owner of a ski business unwillingly relocates his family to an estate to provide live-in care for an elderly widow. He struggles to strike a balance between work and family, and he frequently dreams of an angel.

The film centers on the trials and tribulations of the Spencers, a family living in the Grand Teton Mountains of Wyoming during the early 1960s. As the patriarch of a large and growing family, Clay Spencer is fiercely independent, yet dedicated to his family. While he resists the influence of religion, he struggles to remain faithful to his wife Olivia, to enable his son to attend college, and to build a new home for his family.

Roger Hobbs is an overworked banker who reflects on his recent vacation. Originally, he and his wife, Peggy, were to travel overseas alone together, but Peggy instead arranges a seaside holiday which includes their two grown daughters, teenage daughter and son, family cook, sons-in-law and grandchildren.

A young boy, Tom Tiflin, is given a small pony by his father. Tom asks the stable helper, Billy Buck, to help him raise and train it so that it can be ridden. During a rain storm the pony gets out of the stable and, having been soaked, becomes fevered. Despite Buck’s best efforts to nurse the pony it develops strangles and requires a tracheotomy. Shortly after the procedure, the pony escapes from the farm.

In Cornwall, 1819, a young orphan, Mary, is sent to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are landlords of the Jamaica Inn. Mary soon realises her uncle’s inn serves as the base for a gang of ship wreckers – who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast, and Mary begins to fear for her life.

In late-1800s London, the well-to-do Adelaide, over the objections of her family, marries her drawing teacher, impoverished artist Henry Lambert, and moves into his flat in the run-down street Britannia Mews. Henry soon proves himself to be an alcoholic who is more interested in drinking and pursuing his hobby of making elaborate marionettes than in completing his paintings.