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Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe (Louis Calhern) comes to Maine to visit his son Joe (Van Johnson), a college poetry instructor, and his wife Connie (Janet Leigh) in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch so Opie can retire.
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- Comedy, Family
- Edward Buzzell
- 1953-03-13
Confidentially Connie (1953) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe (Louis Calhern) comes to Maine to visit his son Joe (Van Johnson), a college poetry instructor, and his wife Connie (Janet Leigh) in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch so Opie can retire.
Joe Bedloe (Van Johnson) is a professor at a small college where they seem to pay their faculty very, very little...so little that his wife Connie (Janet Leigh) has to make a lot of cutbacks. One cutback is meat...something they've learned to do without.
Plot. Maine housewife Connie Bedloe is pregnant, but the family's limited income from her husband Joe's college teaching job means that they can't buy the meat her obstetrician recommends. Connie gives up smoking to be able to afford lamb chops.
Confidentially Connie. The Magruders are played by real-life married couple Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart, who appeared together in twenty-two films and TV projects, as well as on the stage. They are also the parents of June Lockhart and grandparents of Anne Lockhart. Helpful • 3 0.
An expectant mother hatches a series of madcap schemes to improve her husband's financial standing in the 1953 MGM comedy Confidentially Connie starring Janet Leigh and Van Johnson.
