Holiday Affair (1949)

HOLIDAY AFFAIR  (1949)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Don Hartman
    Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey,
    Gordon Gebert, Griff Barnett, Harry Morgan
Here's a movie that bombed at the box office because nobody in 1949 wanted to see tough guy Robert Mitchum in a light comedy. It's actually kind of a sweet little romance starring Janet Leigh as a young widow with a six-year-old son, Wendell Corey as the nice-guy lawyer she's been dating for a couple of years, and Mitchum as a would-be boat builder who drifts from job to job and spends most of his free time with the seals and squirrels at the Central Park Zoo. The casting tells you a lot in this case. Like, which of the two men do you think will end up with Janet Leigh? You don't need an encyclopedia to figure that out.