Christmas in Connecticut
starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall
directed by: Don Siegel, Peter Godfrey
directed by: Don Siegel, Peter Godfrey
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9781419818653
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1419818651
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 08, 2005
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 231
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 11, 1945
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Editorial Review:
Description:
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?
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
Average Rating: 
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- Not Great, But Really GoodBad direction keeps this movie from being good. In fact, even Barbara Stanwyck comes off looking awkward ... Read More
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- Don't miss the extrasDon't miss the extra feature on this DVD. I was enchanted by the special vintage short, "Star in the Night." ... Read More
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- A classic movie you can watch again and againOur whole family loves this movie. Barbara Stanwyck plays a writer who pretends to be married with a baby and ... Read More
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- Christmas in ConnecticutI watch this every Christmas. This is one of my favorite Christmas shows. It is fun and light hearted.
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- I'm buying it!Someone just told me about this movie, right after I mentioned that my name was Elizabeth Lane and I work in publishing. ... Read More
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