Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan) is an American sailor who is shipwrecked and survives at sea for 17 days with nothing to eat. Through a series of comic events he is invited to spend Christmas with America's premiere home maker Elizabeth Lane (think Martha Stewart in the 1940's) for a traditional Christmas dinner at her country farm in Connecticut. Unfortunately Elizabeth Lane, played by Barbara Stanwyck, does not really own a farm. In fact everything she writes for her magazine is false. She is a single career girl living in a one bedroom apartment in NYC. She doesn't have a farm, a husband or a baby. And she incapable of boiling water without burning it. Now in order to keep her job she must come up with a farm, husband, baby and learn how to prepare a Christmas banquet before her sailor guest and publisher (Sydney Greenstreet) arrive on Christmas Eve.
A highly engaging romantic, holiday comedy with great support from Reginald Gardiner, Una O'Connor and S.Z. Sakall.
At the Movie House rating *** stars
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