] On his desk is an old-fashioned computing machine for number-crunching.When 5:20 pm approaches, he is left abandoned at his desk, and remains there for a few hours.As he approaches his apartment at a quarter to nine and paces back and forth, he looks up from the sidewalk at the lit window in his second-story apartment on West 67th Street in a converted brownstone - cha-cha music emanates from inside.An audience member asked if the female character was based on herself - she replied: "Honestly, I can say she""s a completely different person.This wonderful holiday film has long been considered a cherished family tradition, with a strong faith-affirming religious theme.Through the revolving doors strutted the attractive, beautiful young stenographer Miss Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford), a typical ambitious working girl who ascended in one of the elevators to Preysing""s hotel room on the 6th floor - she shared the lift with Pimenov, Kringelein, and the Baron.