A Cool Christmas, the Robert Mitchum Way

Don Hartman’s 1949 film, “Holiday Affair,” has many elements of a great romantic comedy. A young widow, Connie Ennis (Janet Leigh), is struggling to make ends meet so that she can give her little boy, Timmy, a nice and memorable Christmas. She works as a comparison shopper, and ‘tis the season for shopping! Everyone wants the latest and greatest, and the streets of New York are bustling (more than usual) with shoppers.