Life with Luigi: Luigi Gets Job as Santa Claus (1948)

Luigi Vasco, a newly arrived immigrant in Chicago, tries to buy a bicycle for his young friend Jimmy O'Connor as a Christmas present. He sells a Paul Revere lamp to raise the money, but the sixty dollars is stolen in a crowded department store. Luigi then finds himself stepping in as a stand-in Santa Claus after the store's regular Santa quits, and he meets a variety of children along the way. The story is told through Luigi's letter to his mother in Italy. This episode is from the Life with Luigi comedy series, first broadcast on December 14, 1948, starring J. Carroll Naish as Luigi with Alan Reed as Pasquale.

With Luigi Vasco, Jimmy O'Connor, Pasquale, Rosa, Mr. Grogan, Miss Spalding, Mama Vasco.

Listen for: Luigi selling the Paul Revere lamp, the theft of his sixty dollars in the department store, and his unexpected stint as Santa Claus

First aired on December 14, 1948.

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