In the letter, she talks about buying dresses, spending time with her grandson, running her household and finding the dining room girl dead drunk on the floor.

Alice passes out there, dead drunk in the guardhouse — and wakes up in her childhood bed on her 16th birthday.

In the film, Kringle is Santa; while in New York for the Macy’s parade he finds the fake Santa, the actor set to play him, dead drunk and not up to the job.

But the colonel ended up dead drunk.

But I didn’t say that I was so dead drunk that I couldn’t move.”