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.
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)
Arthur Aylesworth
Sleigh Driver (uncredited)
Walter Baldwin
Herb, the Sheriff (uncredited)
Edward Biby
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Marie Blake
Mrs. Wright (uncredited)
George Boyce
Party Guest (uncredited)
Lillian Bronson
Secretary (uncredited)
Bob Burns
Party Guest (uncredited)
Oliver Cross
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
John Dehner
State Trooper #2 (uncredited)
Charles Flynn
U-Boat Torpedo Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
Allen Fox
Postman (uncredited)
James Frasco
Baby (uncredited)
Jody Gilbert
Mrs. Gerseg (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Man at Dance (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
Elkins (uncredited)
Fred Kelsey
Harper (uncredited)
Kurt Kreuger
U-Boat Sailor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pat Lane
Reporter (uncredited)
Wilbur Mack
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Charles Marsh
Reporter (uncredited)
Jack Mower
State Trooper #1 (uncredited)
Barry Norton
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
John O'Connor
Deliveryman (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Officer in Restaurant (uncredited)
Scott Seaton
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Charles Sherlock
Bartender (uncredited)
Emmett Smith
Sam (uncredited)
Crew
Peter Godfrey
Director
Lionel Houser
Screenplay
Adele Comandini
Screenplay
Aileen Hamilton
Story
Frank Magee
Editor
Carl E. Guthrie
Director of Photography
Claude Archer
Assistant Director
Jack L. Warner
Executive Producer
William Jacobs
Producer
Lou Jennings
Additional Camera
Edith Head
Costume Design
Milo Anderson
Costume Design
Perc Westmore
Makeup Artist
Charles David Forrest
Sound Mixer
Gerald W. Alexander
Sound Mixer
Robert G. Wayne
Sound Mixer
Everett Alton Brown
Sound
William C. McGann
Special Effects
Willard Van Enger
Visual Effects
Friedrich Hollaender
Original Music Composer
Leo F. Forbstein
Music Director
M.K. Jerome
Songs
Jack Scholl
Lyricist
Casey Roberts
Set Decoration
Stanley Fleischer
Art Direction
Jerome Moross
Orchestrator
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