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Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.
Keywords
friendship
squirrel
juggler
wealth
vaudeville
hidden
christmas
fortune
hidden money
acrobats
investing
assistance
acrobatics
Casts

Jimmy Durante
Mr. Louie Amendola

Terry Moore
Rosalinda Amendola

Tom Drake
Peter 'Pete' Dingle

Frank Orth
Mr. Frank Dingle

Sara Haden
Mrs.Katie Dingle

Queenie Smith
Mrs. Amendola

Chick Chandler
Phil Davis

Jimmy Conlin
Joe Mahoney
Rupert
Himself the Squirrel

Hugh Sanders
Mulligan

Don Beddoe
Mr. Haggerty (as Donald T. Beddoe)

Frank Cady
Mr. Taney - Tax Investigator

Candy Candido
Molineri - Florist

Clancy Cooper
Police Lt. Saunders

Harold Goodwin
Callahan - F.B.I. Man

Lester Dorr
Eddie, the Bartender (uncredited)

Kenner G. Kemp
Passerby in Park (uncredited)

Frank Marlowe
Dave the Mailman (uncredited)

Torben Meyer
Mr. Petrushka the Baker (uncredited)
Ralph Montgomery
Fireman (uncredited)

Irving Pichel
Puzzled Pedestrian (uncredited)

Harry Strang
Fire Chief (uncredited)
Crews

Irving Pichel
Director
László Vadnay
Screenplay
Ted Allan
Story
James O'Hanlon
Writer
Harry Crane
Writer

Leith Stevens
Music
Clarence Wheeler
Orchestrator
Lewis J. Rachmil
Production Supervisor
Ernst Fegté
Production Design
Harold Godsoe
Assistant Director
Joseph Kish
Set Decoration
Harry Ray
Makeup Artist
Flora James
Hairstylist
Helen Rachmil
Costumer
William H. Lynch
Sound
Curly Twiford
Animal Coordinator
Maurice Goldberg
Still Photographer
Lionel Lindon
Director of Photography

George Pal
Producer
Duke Goldstone
Editor
Backdrops & Posters

