Christmas in July (1940) on Netflix
Jimmy MacDonald, a clerk at Baxter and Sons Coffee, enters the Maxford House slogan contest, hoping its $25,000 prize will let him marry Betty Casey. A telegram tells him he has won.
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Jimmy MacDonald works as a bookkeeping clerk at Baxter and Sons Coffee, and he spends his spare time entering contests in the hope that one of them will make his fortune. His latest entry is a slogan for the Maxford House Coffee contest and its $25,000 grand prize, which he plans to spend on small luxuries for his mother and on marrying Betty Casey, his girlfriend and a fellow employee at the company. At Maxford House, the jury is deadlocked over the winning slogan, and the founder and president, Dr. Maxford, has no name to announce. Three of Jimmy's co-workers put a telegram on his desk saying he has won.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Christmas in July (1940)
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- Sturges shot the picture in under a month, from 1 to 29 June 1940, and according to the biographer Donald Spoto he directed it wearing a straw boater and carrying a bamboo cane.
