The 'Elf' department store scenes could have taken place at a classic retailer: Macy's. Discover why the chain didn't want to be in the film.

Buddy the elf could have fought a fake Santa Claus inside a Macy's in the movie Elf, but didn't.. Instead, Buddy winds up working at Gimbels, a once popular competitor of Macy’s that closed back ...

Why Macy's wasn't the department store in 'Elf' "Macy’s was willing to let us shoot there, use their Santaland, even incorporate us into the parade," director Jon Favreau told Rolling Stone in a ...

3. Gimbels Santa and Buddy had one take to film the ‘North Pole’ fight scene. The interaction between Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf and Artie Lange, as the department store Santa who “smells ...

Gimbels, where Buddy (the elf the movie is about) works, used to be a real department store in NYC, but it closed in the '80s; ...

He also falls in love with department store worker Jovie (Zooey Deschanel), and he gets into a fight with a pre-“Game of Thrones” fame Peter Dinklage. 6 Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf.

Why Macy's wasn't the department store in 'Elf' "Macy’s was willing to let us shoot there, use their Santaland, even incorporate us into the parade," director Jon Favreau told Rolling Stone in a ...