Classic Movies - Christmas Classics: Holiday Affair

Holiday Affair (1949)
Janet Leigh and Robert Mitchum

Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, really a commercial spy. He unmasks her but lets her go, which gets him fired. They end up on a date, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, but delights her son Timmy, who doesn't want Carl for a step-dad. Standard (if sweet) romantic complications follow.

**Trivia Question for Today: At the time of filming Holiday Affair, Robert Mitchum was contracted to RKO Pictures. According to Robert Osborne, Howard Hughes, the head of RKO, had Mitchum take the part to repair his image after his arrest. What was Mitchum arrested for?

Trivia Answer for Previous Post: American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 claims that, except for Double Indemnity (1944), this was Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray's only joint screen appearance. Fact is, they also co-starred in The Moonlighter (1953) and There's Always Tomorrow (1956).

Classic Movies - MGM Musicals: In the Good Old Summertime

It's turn of the century America when Andrew and Veronica first meet - by crashing into each other. They develop an instant and mutual dislike which intensifies when, later on, Andrew is forced to hire Veronica as a saleslady at Oberkugen's music store. What the two don't know is that while they may argue and fight constantly throughout the day, they are actually engaged in an innocent, romantic and completely anonymous relationship by night, through the post office.

**Trivia Question for Today: Who is the little girl who appears with Van Johnson and Judy Garland at the end of In the Good Old Summertime?

Trivia Answer for Previous Post: MGM considered Seven Brides for Seven Brothers a B movie - they had higher aspirations for the more expensive Brigadoon (1954). For this reason, they slashed the budget on "Seven Brothers", forcing Stanley Donen to use painted backdrops instead of location filming.