Christmas in Connecticut
starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, J. Carrol Naish, Donald Woods, Rosina Galli
directed by: Don Siegel, Peter Godfrey
directed by: Don Siegel, Peter Godfrey
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A single woman passes herself off as a housewife in the column she writes for a newspaper. When her unknowing editor invites himself and his war hero friend to her fictitious home for christmas dinner she must come up with a house and a family pronto.Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 09/30/2008Starring: Sydney Greenstreet Barbara StanwyckRun time: 101 minutesRating: NrDirector: Peter Godfrey
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Christmas in Connecticut is a holiday film that plays 365 days of the year. Barbara Stanwyck gives a brilliant, sardonic performance as Elizabeth Lane, a columnist for Smart Housekeeping magazine, whose enticing descriptions of the exquisite meals she prepares for her husband and baby on their bucolic Connecticut farm earns her fame as "America's Best Cook." A writer, she is; a cook, she is not. As she types the words, "From my living room window, as I write, the good cedar logs cracking on the fire..." the view is of clothes flapping on the line outside her bachelorette Manhattan apartment. An able supporting cast keeps her lie on life support: her editor, her stuffy and detestable architect suitor, and the wonderful "Uncle" Felix (S.Z. Sakall), an English-garbling Hungarian chef who provides the recipes that fill her column.
Cut to Jefferson Jones, a sailor adrift at sea for weeks after his destroyer is torpedoed. Memories of the food described in Lane's columns are central to his survival. After his rescue, as he's recuperating in a naval hospital, a marriage-minded nurse thinks she might nudge Jones to the altar if he could only experience a real domestic Christmas. And it just so happens that she was nurse to the grandchild of Alexander Yardley, the wealthy and powerful publisher of --you guessed it--Smart Housekeeping magazine. And so, she pens the letter that could unravel Lane's carefully constructed fraud. She writes to Yardley asking that Jones be included in America's ultimate Christmas--the one to be held at the Lane family farm in Connecticut. The pompous Yardley (ably portrayed by Sidney Greenstreet) believes the Lane myth and instantly sniffs a story that will send his magazine's circulation skyrocketing. And staring down a lonely holiday, he decides to join the Lanes for Christmas on the farm, too. Now, all Lane has to do is come up with a farm. And a husband. And let's not forget the baby. Christmas in Connecticut is classic screwball entertainment of the best kind, with its on-target skewering of social convention and house-of- cards-about-to-tumble tension: a perfect farcical vision of domestic blitz. --Susan Benson
A single woman passes herself off as a housewife in the column she writes for a newspaper. When her unknowing editor invites himself and his war hero friend to her fictitious home for christmas dinner she must come up with a house and a family pronto.Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 09/30/2008Starring: Sydney Greenstreet Barbara StanwyckRun time: 101 minutesRating: NrDirector: Peter Godfrey
Amazon.com essential video:
Christmas in Connecticut is a holiday film that plays 365 days of the year. Barbara Stanwyck gives a brilliant, sardonic performance as Elizabeth Lane, a columnist for Smart Housekeeping magazine, whose enticing descriptions of the exquisite meals she prepares for her husband and baby on their bucolic Connecticut farm earns her fame as "America's Best Cook." A writer, she is; a cook, she is not. As she types the words, "From my living room window, as I write, the good cedar logs cracking on the fire..." the view is of clothes flapping on the line outside her bachelorette Manhattan apartment. An able supporting cast keeps her lie on life support: her editor, her stuffy and detestable architect suitor, and the wonderful "Uncle" Felix (S.Z. Sakall), an English-garbling Hungarian chef who provides the recipes that fill her column.
Cut to Jefferson Jones, a sailor adrift at sea for weeks after his destroyer is torpedoed. Memories of the food described in Lane's columns are central to his survival. After his rescue, as he's recuperating in a naval hospital, a marriage-minded nurse thinks she might nudge Jones to the altar if he could only experience a real domestic Christmas. And it just so happens that she was nurse to the grandchild of Alexander Yardley, the wealthy and powerful publisher of --you guessed it--Smart Housekeeping magazine. And so, she pens the letter that could unravel Lane's carefully constructed fraud. She writes to Yardley asking that Jones be included in America's ultimate Christmas--the one to be held at the Lane family farm in Connecticut. The pompous Yardley (ably portrayed by Sidney Greenstreet) believes the Lane myth and instantly sniffs a story that will send his magazine's circulation skyrocketing. And staring down a lonely holiday, he decides to join the Lanes for Christmas on the farm, too. Now, all Lane has to do is come up with a farm. And a husband. And let's not forget the baby. Christmas in Connecticut is classic screwball entertainment of the best kind, with its on-target skewering of social convention and house-of- cards-about-to-tumble tension: a perfect farcical vision of domestic blitz. --Susan Benson
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- Watching This Is 'A Christmas Tradition'!
My oldest daughter and I first discovered this(1945) film several years ago on Turner Classic Movies (TCM),and it has become a 'Tradition' to view it every Christmas since. Of course I immediately ordered it from Amazon so I would have my own copy.
It is delightfully hilarious fun with a sweet romance and 'to die for' winter scenery, as well. Being in Black & White just adds to it's richness.
Highly recommended,and I believe that anyone who views it will also add Christmas ... Read More
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- Far from a Christmas classic
If you really want to watch a Christmas classic, you could easily skip this and perhaps choose any other Christmas film. I was very disappointed by this movie after watching such classics as; It's a wonderful life, Scrooge, Miracle on 34th Street (starring Maureen O'Hara), White Christmas, Bishop's Wife, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Home Alone2, and even Apartment which was set in Christmas time. I was hoping to see the Yuletide spirit; Christmas wreaths decorating the walls of ... Read More
Rating: - Classic Cheesy Christmas
Christmas in Connecticut is a refreshingly cheesy reminder of a time not so long ago. It is family friendly and great for date night around the Holidays.
Rating: - Christmas in Connectcut...dvd
This is a seasonal favorite of mine.I already had it on VHS tape, but I wanted the DVD also.
Rating: - Christmas would not be complete without this great movie
This is one of my all time favorite holiday movies. Barbara Stanwyck is lovely in her designer collection outfits and the story is both heartwarming and funny. The character actors add so much to this as a single New Yorker who lives in a small apartment, can't cook, pretends to have a house in Connecticut with a make-believe baby and husband, acting as a "Martha Stewart"-ish writer of Smart Housekeeping magazine.Dennis Morgan is so good looking and good natured as the handsome Navy man, rescued from ... Read More
- Watching This Is 'A Christmas Tradition'!My oldest daughter and I first discovered this(1945) film several years ago on Turner Classic Movies (TCM),and it has become a 'Tradition' to view it every Christmas since. Of course I immediately ordered it from Amazon so I would have my own copy.
It is delightfully hilarious fun with a sweet romance and 'to die for' winter scenery, as well. Being in Black & White just adds to it's richness.
Highly recommended,and I believe that anyone who views it will also add Christmas ... Read More
- Far from a Christmas classic If you really want to watch a Christmas classic, you could easily skip this and perhaps choose any other Christmas film. I was very disappointed by this movie after watching such classics as; It's a wonderful life, Scrooge, Miracle on 34th Street (starring Maureen O'Hara), White Christmas, Bishop's Wife, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Home Alone2, and even Apartment which was set in Christmas time. I was hoping to see the Yuletide spirit; Christmas wreaths decorating the walls of ... Read More
- Classic Cheesy ChristmasChristmas in Connecticut is a refreshingly cheesy reminder of a time not so long ago. It is family friendly and great for date night around the Holidays.
- Christmas in Connectcut...dvdThis is a seasonal favorite of mine.I already had it on VHS tape, but I wanted the DVD also.
- Christmas would not be complete without this great movieThis is one of my all time favorite holiday movies. Barbara Stanwyck is lovely in her designer collection outfits and the story is both heartwarming and funny. The character actors add so much to this as a single New Yorker who lives in a small apartment, can't cook, pretends to have a house in Connecticut with a make-believe baby and husband, acting as a "Martha Stewart"-ish writer of Smart Housekeeping magazine.Dennis Morgan is so good looking and good natured as the handsome Navy man, rescued from ... Read More
