I like this film. It's not sentimental and is quirky. No reason at all why Janet Leigh and her son Gordon Gebert couldn't go to California. Gebert is still with us, interviewed here, talking about Chicago Calling, which looks interesting... But back to Holiday Affair, it works because it's not at all mushy. Leigh / Mitchum / Corey works (they had good repartee on set). Gebert manages to hold long takes well, praises the director. Scene between Mitchum and the boy was largely improvised.
With Harry Morgan as a sarcastic cop, Henry O'Neill (store owner).
Music Roy Webb, DP Milton Krasner. RKO.
It's odd reading in 'The RKO Story' that the film's reviewed (in 1982) as being 'garnished with treacly sentiment.. [a] holiday turkey' - neither true. It lost $300,000 at the box office.
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