#WomanEmpowermentWednesday #ChristmasEdition Janet Leigh's Connie Ennis in "Holiday Affair" (1949)

Connie Ennis is one bad ass lady of the 1940s. As a single mother, dating the safe lawyer Carl Davis (Wendell Corey) and working at a job where she more or less makes her own hours as a comparative shopper, she was doing pretty well for herself. Emotionally however, Connie is no different than any other woman whose husband was lost in World War 2. Healthy or not, she dubs her son Timmy "the man of the house," fixes his hair the way his father wore it, and thinks that the unexciting Carl is the man for her even though her in-laws are not too keen. For better or for worse, Robert Mitchum's Steve Mason just comes in and messes her idea of normalcy all up, making her believe in love and excitement all over again.