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Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

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Reviews Counted: 16

Fresh: 14

Rotten:2

Average Rating: 7.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: A sharp writer, who has never stepped foot in a kitchen, wrote a cooking column for a women's magazine. She posed as a happy homemaker, complete with husband, babe and country estate, to trick her... A sharp writer, who has never stepped foot in a kitchen, wrote a cooking column for a women's magazine. She posed as a happy homemaker, complete with husband, babe and country estate, to trick her publisher who believes in authenticity. Her goose is cooked when the publisher arranged for her to host a sailor over the Christmas holidays. The journalist has to marry her boyfriend, find a home and prepare a spectacular meal for a huge magazine spread. Things grow even more complicated when she starts to fall for the chivalrous seadog. [More]

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall, Robert Shayne, Una O'Connor, Frank Jenks, Joyce Compton

Director: Peter Godfrey

Director: Peter Godfrey
Screenwriter: Adele Comandini, Lionel Houser
Story: Aileen Hamilton
Producer: Williams Jacobs
Composer: Frederick Hollander

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Nov 8, 2005

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  • Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
  • Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writer. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality she is an umarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The recipes come from her good friend Felix. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his christmas on *her* farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the truth comes out, but what can she do?
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    Thoroughly moth-eaten.

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    12/05/08
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    If this mildly amusing screwball comedy about mistaken identity has a conservative slant of glorifying housewives it's due to the zeitgeist: It was made in 1945, at the end of WWII, when men were coming home and women sent back to the kitchen.

    Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
    01/12/08
    Emanuel Levy
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    A sometimes hilarious farce and a holiday favorite.

    Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
    12/04/06
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    Peter Godfrey, the director, has a good deal to learn about the art of telling a boudoir joke in the parlor and getting away with it.

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    03/25/06
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    reasonably good fun, and Stanwyck actually overcomes the role's limitations

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    11/18/05
    Christopher Null
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    No review available.

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    06/27/05
    Emanuel Levy
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    Delightfully cheerful screwball comedy that is especially suited for the Christmas holidays.

    Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
    12/26/04
    Dennis Schwartz
    Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Breezy, fun holiday comedy that has dated somewhat.

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    10/14/04
    Steve Crum
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    No review available.

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    Carol Cling
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    08/04/04
    Linda Cook
    Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

    No review available.

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    07/01/04
    Randy Shulman
    Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)

    Okay, mildly amusing Christmas fare.

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    08/11/03
    Ken Hanke
    Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    A gem of a holiday comedy: Stanwyck is adorable

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    07/24/03
    James Sanford
    Kalamazoo Gazette

    Silly as its premise may be, the film itself is both hilarious and heart-warming.

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    05/24/03
    Channel 4 Film
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    All in all, though, this is all very fluffy and silly and perfectly wonderful.

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    01/01/00
    MaryAnn Johanson
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    Frolicsome in an artificially hearty sort of way.

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