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
Rank
#9 in 1945·#3077 overall
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
3.6 / 5
Where to Watch
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
107 reviews
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!!
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.
emmydewPRO
8.0★ · 12/24/25
i never liked this until recently bc the poster unnerved me
i never liked this until recently bc the poster unnerved me
Mel RygusPRO
7.0★ · 12/23/25
Every film with a “Gowns by Edith Head” line in the credits has immediately won me over. I wish this had less chaos and more romance, but I’m just selfish and love to watch a man simp over Ms. Stanwyck.
Every film with a “Gowns by Edith Head” line in the credits has immediately won me over. I wish this had less chaos and more romance, but I’m just selfish and love to watch a man simp over Ms. Stanwyck.
Danielle Dennehy PRO
A+. Has all the things I love: Christmas, food, barbara stanwyck, silly rom com, and Connecticut (sometimes)
A+. Has all the things I love: Christmas, food, barbara stanwyck, silly rom com, and Connecticut (sometimes)