Holiday Affair (1949)


 Production Company: RKO

Directed : Don Hartman
Starring : Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh
Plot: Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason (Robert Mitchum) meets big spending customer Connie Ennis (Janet Leigh), 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 (Wendell Corey), but delights her son Timmy (Gordon Gebert)who doesn't want Carl for a step-dad. Standard romantic complications follow.
Trivia: *This film did not do well at the box office, resulting in a loss of $300,000 (over $3.7M in 2022) for RKO according to studio records.
*In the kitchen scene, Steve gives Connie a Merry Christmas kiss. Janet Leigh was to later say, "The expression that is on my face of being overwhelmed was for real." Robert Mitchum revealed, "I wanted to make the kiss memorable, as though the characters were never going to see each other again. The perks of being an actor are at times not bad."
*The film was intended to soften Robert Mitchum's screen persona after his prison sentence in 1949.

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