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Holiday Affair (1949)

Holiday Affair (1949)
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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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Starring:
Robert MitchumJanet Leigh, (more)
Director(s):
Don Hartman
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
NR
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Synopsis of Holiday Affair

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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
87 mins

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Director(s):
Don Hartman
Writer(s):
Isobel Lennart
Producer(s):
Don Hartman
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
NR(Excellent For Children)
Categories:
ComedyRomance
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Linda D.

A very young Janet Leigh and Robert Mitchum are in this delightful old movie about a young war widow with a little boy and two men both very much in love with her; but her inability to completely commit to either of them because of her lingering grief or her husband who died in the war. Actually a light-hearted movie with a little more substance to it than other low budgets like it of this era. Nice old "Christmas movie" that is what you may not have seen.

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Ken B.

This well put together story of a war-widowed mother who works as a comparison shopper to support her young son is a Christmas gem that somehow missed out on becoming a classic. A stream of "happy accidents" pushes the single mom toward a man with uncertain prospects, rather than the sensible and successful attorney who has been pursuing her for two years. This provides a number of funny moments, especially one with Henry Morgan.

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