Synopsis
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.
Movie Information
- Director
- Mitchell Leisen
- Writers
- Preston Sturges
- Release Year
- 1940
- Runtime
- 94 minutes
- Genre
- Comedy, Romance, Drama
- Language
- EN
- Country
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 (128 votes)
Top Cast
Barbara Stanwyck
Lee Leander/Anna Rose Malone
Fred MacMurray
Jack Sargent
Beulah Bondi
Mrs. Sargent
Elizabeth Patterson
Aunt Emma "Emmie"
Willard Robertson
Francis X. O'Leary
Sterling Holloway
Willie Simms
Charles Waldron
Judge in New York
Paul Guilfoyle
District Attorney
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