While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
Directed by Peter Godfrey
nurse
holiday
infant
deception
connecticut
romance
black and white
chef
war hero
sailor
farm house
editor
rocking chair
christmas
domesticity
columnist
idyllic
shipwreck survivors
rural
playful
independent woman
holiday romance
magazine writer
magazine publisher
romantic
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Cast
Barbara Stanwyck
Elizabeth Lane
Dennis Morgan
Jefferson Jones
Sydney Greenstreet
Alexander Yardley
Reginald Gardiner
John Sloan
S.Z. Sakall
Felix Bassenak
Robert Shayne
Dudley Beecham
Una O'Connor
Norah
Frank Jenks
Sinkewicz
Joyce Compton
Nurse Mary Lee
Dick Elliott
Judge Crothers
Betty Alexander
Nurse Smith (uncredited)
Charles Arnt
Homer Higgenbottom (uncredited)
Crew
Peter Godfrey
Director
Friedrich Hollaender
Original Music Composer
Jack L. Warner
Executive Producer
Edith Head
Costume Design
Popular Reviews
129 reviews
Luz
8.0★ · 03/20/26
"Don't you come near me, you seawolf, after the way you deceived me..."
"I deceived you?"
"Yes! You're engaged!"
"You're married"
"That has nothing to do with it!"
I love cows
"Don't you come near me, you seawolf, after the way you deceived me..."
"I deceived you?"
"Yes! You're engaged!"
"You're married"
"That has nothing to do with it!"
I love cows
livvie
7.0★ · 12/25/25
Forget Mariah Carey, Barbara Stanwyck is my queen of Christmas.
Forget Mariah Carey, Barbara Stanwyck is my queen of Christmas.
Isaiah Delong
6.0★ · 12/25/25
had a fun time watching this with my sister.
merry Christmas everyone!!
had a fun time watching this with my sister.
merry Christmas everyone!!
Alexandra
It’s a Barbara Stanwyck christmas
It’s a Barbara Stanwyck christmas
Poo
7.0★ · 12/25/25
"Everything is hunky-dunky"
Fun! Nice breezy screwball Christmas tale, S. Z. Sakall steals the show.
"Everything is hunky-dunky"
Fun! Nice breezy screwball Christmas tale, S. Z. Sakall steals the show.