Holiday Affair

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Holiday Affair
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Directed by	Don Hartman
Produced by	Don Hartman
Written by	John D. Weaver (story) Isobel Lennart (screenplay)
Starring	Robert Mitchum Janet Leigh
Music by	Roy Webb
Cinematography	Milton R. Krasner
Editing by	Harry Marker
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date(s)	December 24, 1949
Running time	87 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
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Holiday Affair is a black-and-white 1949 romantic comedy film starring Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh. The film, directed and produced by Don Hartman, saw Mitchum expand from his typical roles in film noir and war films. Set during the Christmas season, the film became a minor holiday classic, though it has since been forgotten and is less well known as other films, such as It's a Wonderful Life.

[edit] Plot

Steve Mason (Robert Mitchum), a veteran and drifter employed as a clerk at a department store, is fired after letting widowed comparative shopper Connie Ennis (Janet Leigh) return a toy train set. Mason ultimately buys the train for Connie's son Timmy (Gordon Gebert), and the unemployed Mason and the widow gradually fall for each other. Complicating their love, however, is Connie's wealthy but impassive fiancee (Wendell Corey).