A sharp writer, who has never stepped foot in a kitchen, wrote a cooking column for a women's magazine. She posed as a happy homemaker, complete with husband, babe and country estate, to trick her publisher who believes in authenticity. Her goose is cooked when the publisher arranged for her to host a sailor over the Christmas holidays. The journalist has to marry her boyfriend, find a home and prepare a spectacular meal for a huge magazine spread. Things grow even more complicated when she starts to fall for the chivalrous seadog.
In a far away, long ago kingdom, Cinderella is living happily with her
mother and father until her mother dies
Journalist
Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writers. In her
columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her
children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality she is
an umarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg.
The recipes come from her good friend Felix. The owner of the magazine she
works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his christmas on "her" farm. Miss Lane knows
that her career is over if the truth comes out, but what can she do?
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Frank Jenks, Joyce Compton,
Reginald Gardiner, Robert Shayne, S.Z. Sakall, Sydney
Greenstreet, Una O'Connor
