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Christmas in July

Year:

1940

Duration:

USA:67 min

Genres:

Comedy | Romance

IMDB rate:

7.6

Director:

Preston Sturges

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1940-10-18

Filming Locations: Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Preston Sturges

Dick Powell

Jimmy MacDonald

Ellen Drew

Betty Casey

Raymond Walburn

Dr. Maxford

Ernest Truex

Mr. J.B. Baxter

William Demarest

Mr. Bildocker

Alexander Carr

Mr. Shindel

Franklin Pangborn

Don Hartman

Adrian Morris

Tom (as Michael Morris)

Rod Cameron

Dick

Harry Rosenthal

Harry

Georgia Caine

Mrs. MacDonald

Torben Meyer

Mr. Schmidt

Al Bridge

Mr. Hillbeiner (as Alan Bridge)

Lucille Ward

Mrs. Casey

Julius Tannen

Mr. Zimmerman

Ferike Boros

Mrs. Schwartz

Victor Potel

Davenola Salesman (as Vic Potel)

George Anderson

Mr. Jenkins (uncredited)

Sam Ash

(uncredited)

Jan Buckingham

Ms. Pettypass (uncredited)

James Conaty

Coworker (uncredited)

Jimmy Conlin

Arbuster (uncredited)

Sayre Dearing

Coworker (uncredited)

Norah Gale

(uncredited)

Harry Hayden

Mr. Waterbury (uncredited)

Harry Hollingsworth

Juror (uncredited)

Arthur Hoyt

Mild Juror (uncredited)

Arthur Stuart Hull

Cashier (uncredited)

Stanley Mack

Juror (uncredited)

Hazel Marshall

(uncredited)

Bob Mayo

(uncredited)

Eileen McAvoy

(uncredited)

Esther Michelson

Sophie's Mother (uncredited)

Frank Mills

Cabbie Listening to Radio (uncredited)

Charles R. Moore

Porter in Maxford's Office (uncredited)

Frank Moran

Patrolman Murphy (uncredited)

Ned Norton

Juror (uncredited)

Frank O'Connor

Juror (uncredited)

June Preston

Little Singing Blond Girl (uncredited)

Gus Reed

Juror (uncredited)

Georges Renavent

Office Door Sign-Painter (uncredited)

Cyril Ring

Coworker (uncredited)

Dewey Robinson

Large Juror (uncredited)

Jack Shea

Coworker (uncredited)

Sheila Sheldon

Sophie (uncredited)

C.L. Sherwood

Elevator Operator at End (uncredited)

Walter Soderling

Weary Juror (uncredited)

Douglas Spencer

Man Listening to Radio (uncredited)

Larry Steers

Mr. Babcock (uncredited)

Kay Stewart

Secretary (uncredited)

Alice Thomas

(uncredited)

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

Sam (uncredited)

Cheryl Walker

(uncredited)

Dorothy Ward

(uncredited)

Robert Warwick

Juror (uncredited)

Pat West

Man with Phone (uncredited)

Beal Wong

Chinese Man Listening to Radio (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Sturges helped invent the gadget sofa demonstrated in the department store scene.

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This film was based on a play called "A Cup of Coffee" which Preston Sturges wrote in the summer of 1931. The play also features a character named Jimmy MacDonald who works for a coffee company and enters a contest for a rival company with the slogan "If you can't sleep at night it isn't the coffee, it's the bunk." Much of the play's plot and supporting characters were changed for the film, but the dialogue between Jimmy and his girlfriend about his slogan is repeated almost verbatim. "A Cup of Coffee" was never produced in Sturges' lifetime, but it was eventually staged by the New York theater company Soho Rep in a production that opened in March of 1988, fifty-seven years after the play was written and twenty-nine years after Sturges' death.

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The working title of this film was "A Cup Of Coffee".

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Quotes

Don Hartman: I wish I could have given you the news you were so anxious to hear. But since I could not, I will conclude with what the prisoner said when the hangman couldn't find the rope: "No noose is good noose".

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Mr. Shindel: Officer, I want all these people arrested.

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Mr. J.B. Baxter: Well that sounds very deep dish and high falutin'.

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