A New York City swindler has until Christmas to come up with the $10,000 he owes a gangster, prompting him to go into scamming overdrive. /// A racetrack tout has a month to pay back the money a gangster lost on a touted horse just before Christmas. Silver Bells
It's midnight at the bookstore and all the book and magazine characters are coming to life. When a bulldog from an adventure book uses a Boswell Sisters-like performance by girls in a travel magazine as a distraction to rob a bank, he is chased, caught, and sentenced to, of course "Life" (the magazine). But there's also a conveniently placed "Escape" magazine....
Tex Avery
/ Bob Boins (voice) Danny Webb
/ Ted Lewis / Asta (voice) Mel Blanc
/ Conductor / Cholly Jam / Walter Snitchall (voice) Billy Bletcher
/ Public Enemy #1 / Judge (voice)
A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle. /// A bachelor screenwriter finds himself playing host to a teenage delinquent over the holidays.
Father Conroy (Crosby) has a parish which serves the acting and performance community. When one of his parishoners gets too sick to work, his daughter Holly (Reynolds) finds a job working for a dance club of questionable character, which is run by Tony Vincent (Wagner). Vincent never made the big time, and Father Conroy tries to look after Holly. There are many musical numbers, and the conclusion is a televised benefit show hosted by Father Conroy, and Tony must choose between Holly and national fame.
