The romancin's rosy and the fun's furious and everybody's going to be there! You're invited!
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
- 6.9
- 1945
- Released
- 1h 42m
Barbara Stanwyck
Elizabeth Lane
Dennis Morgan
Jefferson Jones
Sydney Greenstreet
Alexander Yardley
Reginald Gardiner
John Sloan
S.Z. Sakall
Felix Bassenak
Robert Shayne
Dudley Beecham
Una O'Connor
Norah
Frank Jenks
Sinkewicz
Joyce Compton
Nurse Mary Lee
Dick Elliott
Judge Crothers
Betty Alexander
Nurse Smith (uncredited)
Charles Arnt
Homer Higgenbottom (uncredited)
Arthur Aylesworth
Sleigh Driver (uncredited)
Walter Baldwin
Herb, the Sheriff (uncredited)
Edward Biby
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Marie Blake
Mrs. Wright (uncredited)George Boyce
Party Guest (uncredited)
Lillian Bronson
Secretary (uncredited)
Bob Burns
Party Guest (uncredited)Oliver Cross
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
John Dehner
State Trooper #2 (uncredited)Charles Flynn
U-Boat Torpedo Man (archive footage) (uncredited)Allen Fox
Postman (uncredited)James Frasco
Baby (uncredited)Jody Gilbert
Mrs. Gerseg (uncredited)Sam Harris
Man at Dance (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
Elkins (uncredited)
Fred Kelsey
Harper (uncredited)
Kurt Kreuger
U-Boat Sailor (archive footage) (uncredited)Pat Lane
Reporter (uncredited)
Wilbur Mack
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)Charles Marsh
Reporter (uncredited)
Jack Mower
State Trooper #1 (uncredited)
Barry Norton
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Officer in Restaurant (uncredited)
Scott Seaton
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Charles Sherlock
Bartender (uncredited)Emmett Smith
Sam (uncredited)
Released
en
$864,000.00
$3,000,000.00
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Reviews
I greatly loved this yuletide film, with excellent performances by Barbara Stanwyck and Sydney Greenstreet, and fine direction by Peter Godfrey. Had they a stronger actor in the lead than Dennis Morgan, it would be a perfect film, but it's still a wonderful Christmas perennial and favourite to watch. The Oscar-winning short Star in the Night, directed by Don Siegel and a bonus on this DVD, is even
I greatly loved this yuletide film, with excellent performances by Barbara Stanwyck and Sydney Greenstreet, and fine direction by Peter Godfrey. Had they a stronger actor in the lead than Dennis Morgan, it would be a perfect film, but it's still a wonderful Christmas perennial and favourite to watch. The Oscar-winning short Star in the Night, directed by Don Siegel and a bonus on this DVD, is even
Very charming film is more a straight romantic comedy than a Christmas film per se, but any chance to see cinematic greats such as Barbara Stanwyck (especially at this vintage) and, one of the finest character actors ever in Sydney Greenstreet, together is definitely not a lump of coal in a cinephile's Christmas stocking, no-siree!