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Holiday Affair

IT HAPPENS IN DECEMBER...BUT IT'S HOTTER THAN JULY!

6.9 / 10

87 minutes

1949-12-12

English

US

Actors :

Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey, Griff Barnett, Esther Dale, Henry O'Neill, Harry Morgan, Larry J. Blake, Helen Brown, Gordon Gebert, Pat Barton, Genevieve Bell, Melinda Casey, Chick Chandler, Jack Chefe

Description

Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.

Reviews

John Chard

John Chard

5/16/2024, 3:22:09 PM

All anybody wants is for you to live in the present and not be afraid of the future. Directed by Don Hartman and written by Isobel Lennart and John D. Weaver, Holiday Affair stars Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh and Wendell Corey. Story finds Leigh as Connie, a widower with a young son still trying to get over the death of her husband. Semi-courting the safe and reliable Carl (Corey), Connie's head...

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

3/27/2022, 5:53:29 PM

This is one of Janet Leigh's more endearing roles - sandwiched, as she is, between the rather dull but reliable attorney "Carl" (Wendell Corey) and the slightly enigmatic "Mason" (Robert Mitchum). It starts when she, "Connie", engaged as a sort of modern day secret shopper, is unmasked in a department store by salesman who instead of dobbing her in, keeps quiet and gets fired for his troubles. The...