Holiday
Contributors: Godfrey, Peter, 1899-1970, director; Owen, Reginald, 1887-1972, actor; Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990, actor; Sullavan, Margaret, 1909-1960, actor; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Laszlo, Miklos
Series: Silver screen icons; Silver screen icons
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording]
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Homeless persons; Drama; Christmas plays; Man-woman relationships; Food writers; Film adaptations; Pen pals
Other titles: Charles Dickens' A Christmas carol (Motion picture : 1938); Christmas in Connecticut (Motion picture : 1945); Shop around the corner (Motion picture); It happened on 5th Avelue (Motion picture); Shop around the corner (Motion picture). French.
Description: Ebenezer Scrooge finds his view on life changed after he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future; a female newspaper columnist who writes about being a housewife scrambles to keep her job and must find a husband and family in short order, when her publisher invites himself to her alleged home for the holidays; two co-workers in a Budapest store who dislike each other discover that they have been pen pals for some time; homeless people take up residence in a mansion while the family is away for Christmas.
Notes: Originally released as motion pictures 1938-1947.

First film based on the novel by Charles Dickens; third film based on "Parfumerie" by Nikolaus Laszlo.

Dolby mono, full screen 1.37:1.

A Christmas carol: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart ; Christmas in Connecticut: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan ; The shop around the corner: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart ; It happened on 5th Avenue: Don Defore, Ann Harding.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

For private home use only.

Variously in English or French with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: Charles Dickens' A Christmas carol (1938) / produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz ; screenplay by Hugo Butler ; directed by Edwin L. Marin; title: Christmas in Connecticut (1945) / screenplay by Lionel Houser, Adele Comandini ; directed by Peter Godfrey; title: The shop around the corner (1940) / screenplay by Samson Raphaelson ; produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch; title: It happened on 5th Avenue (1947) / screenplay by Everett Freeman ; produced and directed by Roy Del Ruth.