| Christmas in July | |
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| Directed by | Preston Sturges |
| Screenplay by | Preston Sturges |
| Based on | A Cup of Coffee 1931 play by Preston Sturges |
| Produced by | |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Victor Milner |
| Edited by | Ellsworth Hoagland |
| Music by | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 67 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Christmas in July is a 1940 American screwball comedy[2] film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Dick Powell and Ellen Drew.
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).
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- ^ "Christmas in July". Film Forum. Archived from the original on February 3, 2023.
- ^ Beach 2002, p. 117.