Christmas in July is a 1940 American screwball comedy[2] film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Dick Powell and Ellen Drew. Enjoy the Full length move (above).
Based on Sturges' unproduced 1931 play A Cup of Coffee, it follows an ambitious clerk who is tricked into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest for a coffee company, and begins using his believed winnings to fulfill his dreams. It was Sturges' second film as writer-director, after The Great McGinty (1940).
Directed by Preston Sturges
Screenplay by Preston Sturges
Based on A Cup of Coffee
1931 play
by Preston Sturges
Produced by
Paul Jones
Buddy G. DeSylva[i]
Starring
Dick Powell
Ellen Drew
Raymond Walburn
William Demarest
Cinematography Victor Milner
Edited by Ellsworth Hoagland
Music by
John Leipold[i]
Leo Shuken[i]
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
October 18, 1940
Running time 67 minutes[1]
Country United States
Language English
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