Movie
Holiday Affair
Romance film with a runtime of 90 minutes, released in 1949. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
A disarming little trifle, Holiday Affair has in the years since its original release become a Yuletide perennial on television. War widow Janet Leigh hasn't the money to buy the model train that her son Gordon Gebert wants for Christmas. Robert Mitchum overhears the boy's plight, and offers to purchase the train for him, even though it will deplete his own money supply. This little gesture of kindness from Mitchum snowballs into a series of comic complications, thanks in part to the unwelcome intervention of Leigh's stuffed-shirt attorney boyfriend Wendell Corey. Harry Morgan shows up towards the end as a flustered night-court judge who helps tie some of the loose plot ends together. Based on a short story by John D. Weaver, A Holiday Affair didn't do too well at the box office, but its afterlife has been most satisfactory.
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Cast
- Robert Mitchum
- Janet Leigh
- Wendell Corey
- Gordon Gebert
- Esther Dale
- Griff Barnett
- Henry O'Neill
- Harry Morgan
- Larry Blake
- Helen Brown
- James Griffith
- Frances Morris
- Allen Mathews
- Frank Johnson
- Al Murphy
- Mame Henderson
- Pat Hall
- William Henry
- Jimmy Hawkins
- Robert Lyden
- Jack Chefe
- Donald Dillaway
- Joey Ray
- Mary Stuart
- Frank Mills
- Philip Morris
- Chick Chandler
- Carroll Clark
- Harry Marker
- Albert S. D'Agostino
- Howard Greer
- C. Bakaleinikoff
- Isobel Lennart
- Milton Krasner
