Overview
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.
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DirectorPeter Godfrey
WriterAdele Comandini, Lionel Houser
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)
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Keywords
nurseholidayinfantdeceptionconnecticutromanceblack and whitechefwar herosailorfarm houseeditorrocking chairchristmasdomesticitycolumnistidyllicshipwreck survivorsruralplayful
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$1M
Revenue
$3M
TMDb Votes
172
Added May 14, 2026Updated Jun 3, 2026