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Status
Released
Release
1940
Runtime
1h 34m
"Barbara and Fred in 1940's first great love affair…!"
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.
55 Cast Members
Barbara Stanwyck
Lee Leander/Anna Rose Malone
Fred MacMurray
Jack Sargent
Beulah Bondi
Mrs. Sargent
Elizabeth Patterson
Aunt Emma "Emmie"
Willard Robertson
Francis X. O'Leary
Sterling Holloway
Willie Simms
Charles Waldron
Judge in New York
Paul Guilfoyle
District Attorney
Charles Arnt
Tom
John Wray
Hank
Thomas W. Ross
Mr. Emory
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Rufus
Tom Kennedy
'Fat' Mike
Georgia Caine
Lee's Mother, Mrs. Malone
Virginia Brissac
Mrs. Emory
Spencer Charters
Judge at Rummage Sale
Jean Acker
Jury Member (uncredited)
Ambrose Barker
Customs Official (uncredited)
John Beck
Lee's Stepfather (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)