The Big Heart
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astockton_uk — 10 years ago(December 09, 2015 10:07 PM)
In the case of
Miracle on 34th Street
, the original title is the one that was on the script as first written. It's not at all unusual for changes to be made to a script, even after shooting has begun. If you've ever seen an actual script, you know that amended pages are printed on colored paper. That's so an actor, director or anyone else who needs a copy of the script doesn't accidentally keep the old pages and throw out the new ones after changes are made.
If you look under "Trivia" right here on imdb, it says that when Maureen O'Haranot yet hired to play Doris Walkerfirst read the script, the title of the movie was
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PillowRock — 10 years ago(December 10, 2015 10:31 AM)
The phrase that you're looking for is "working title".
The "original title", in the sense of how it should be listed in movie databases (which is what prompted the original post), is the one under which it was first released.