\"The Santa Claus Girl\" is a 90-minute fictional holiday story screenplay for television based on the life of Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas and the most famous editorial in print journalism history: \"Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus.\" Written for a popular audience, \"The Santa Claus Girl\" reveals the editorial's timeless message of love, generosity and devotion through the character of Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas. She became a teacher in the New York City Public School system, completing her career at Public School 401, which held classes in hospitals for chronically ill and crippled children. Set in a New York hospital in 1952, the height of the polio epidemic in the United States, the screenplay entertains and informs the reader/viewer by showing the dramatic action of the character and the history of the editorial's significance in American popular culture.
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