A Christmas Wish Jimmy Durante

However the last two thirds of the movie take place after christmas.

A christmas wish jimmy durante. Durante doted on cece until his death. Shortly before christmas they move into a ground floor apartment building where rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. They find a room at frank.

It s a mad mad mad mad world. The first third of the movie is all about christmas and a wish made to sappy music. Durante and his second wife adopted a baby girl cecelia alicia on christmas day 1961.

Shortly before christmas they move into a ground floor apartment where rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. A christmas wish is great family fun and viewers will be. Louie amendola jimmy durante once a vaudeville performer with his wife and daughter hasn t been getting any work and as christmas approaches his family is homeless.

A christmas wish is a minor little film that could have been a perennial christmas classic had the movie set it s mind to it. To get more choices take a look at our list of a christmas wish on dvd or use the search box. A charming and wholesome 1950 holiday film about a new york family led by durante who are down on their luck at christmas time.

This is a fun feel good christmas film starring jimmy durante terry moore tom drake and of course rupert the squirrel. A christmas wish 260. The film was originally released as the great rupert though filmed in 1948 when terry moore was only 19 the film was not released until 1950.

Redirected from a christmas wish terry moore and tom drake the great rupert is a 1950 comedy family film produced by george pal directed by irving pichel and starring jimmy durante tom drake and terry moore. First wife jeanne died in 1943. Wed second wife marjorie little after 16 year courtship when she was 39 and he 67 marjorie little had been the hatcheck girl at the copacabana.