Christmas in Connecticut | 
| Directors: Don Siegel, Peter Godfrey
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  117 reviews
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 67716
ISBN: 1419818651
UPC: 012569677166
EAN: 9781419818653
Theatrical Release Date: August 11, 1945
Release Date: November 8, 2005
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| • | 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 heroi |
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Product 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?Running Time: 101 min.System Requirements:Running Time 101 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHRISTMAS/CHRISTMAS UPC: 012569677166
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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
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 Christmas in Connecticut November 8, 2009
Rita Swider
One of my favorite movies, love everything about it, just wish they would come up, with it in color.
 Christmas in Connecticut October 8, 2009
Karen Sharp (Northfield, MN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Christmas in Connecticut is my all time favorite Christmas movie. It is set in the 40's, war time..and is hilarious and touching at the same time. It's a really sweet movie which our family watches every Christmastime! In fact, there are words and lines from the movie we use all year long!
movies worth owning October 8, 2009
The Reader (Your closest library, USA)
One of the all time great Christmas movies. The stars and story line shine as confusion reigns during a holiday season filled with funny lines and even funnier antics. Everything is "hunky-dunky" and well worth rewatching every year.
Watching This Has Become 'A Christmas Tradition'! February 28, 2009
Chris H. (,OH,U.S.A.)
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 In Connecticut to their list of 'must-watch' Christmas season movies.
 Far from a Christmas classic February 12, 2009
Rama Rao (Annandale, VA, USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 churches, homes, shops, buildings and streets. Christmas trees, singing Christmas carols in the background, women and children shopping for the holidays and the whole atmosphere of celebration is conspicuously absent, yet the movie carries the title Christmas in Connecticut. Director Peter Godfrey failed in his effort to make this a classic.
The story is about a Journalist named Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck), one of the country's famous food writers is known to her readers as a hard working married woman living on a farm with her children, and sharing her cooking skills with her readers. In real life she is a single unmarried woman living in an apartment in Manhattan who can't even boil an egg.. The recipe she was posting was from her uncle Felix (S.Z. Sakaal.) Magazine editor Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet) decides that Ms. Lane must invite the war hero Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan) to her country home in Connecticut for Christmas dinner. He thinks that would be a great marketing strategy for her career and his magazine since the Jones recently survived a plane crash and made a miraculous escape from the sea.
Fortunately for Ms. Lane things don't look bad since her long time friend, architect John Sloan (Reginald gardener) has a country home in Connecticut, and is very happy to marry her, and her uncle Felix is happy to cook the Christmas dinner. The neighbor's children who are left in the care of Sloan may be used as her own children. You will think that her problems are solved, but not so fast. First of all she is not in love with John Sloan, and number two her uncle Felix despises him. In spite of this they plan to marry and the marriage ceremony at his house is constantly interrupted by mishaps and miscommunications in the presence of her guests at the house. House keeper Norah (Una O'Connor) has her own mind about things at the house and does not make it any easier. It gets even more complicated when Elizabeth falls in love with Jefferson Jones. Finally they declare love for each other and her boss Yardley in a change of heart offers her even a better deal even though she lied to him about her personal life. Except for some good performances by Dennis Morgan and Una O'Connor, the movie does not shine as I expected.
1. It's a Wonderful Life (60th[[ASIN:B0000AQS5D Scrooge Anniversary Edition)]]
2. Scrooge
3. Scrooge
4. Miracle on 34th Street (Special Edition)
5. The Bishop's Wife
6. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Special Edition)
7. White Christmas
8. The Apartment
9. Home Alone
10. Home Alone 2 - Lost in New York
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