Frolicsome in an artificially hearty sort of way.
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:13
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.2/10
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
Reviews for Christmas in Connecticut
All in all, though, this is all very fluffy and silly and perfectly wonderful.
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.
reasonably good fun, and Stanwyck actually overcomes the role's limitations
Delightfully cheerful screwball comedy that is especially suited for the Christmas holidays.
Silly as its premise may be, the film itself is both hilarious and heart-warming.
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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