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Christmas in Connecticut

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

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05/24/03
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Thoroughly moth-eaten.

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12/05/08
TIME Magazine
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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.

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01/12/08
Emanuel Levy
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A sometimes hilarious farce and a holiday favorite.

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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
New York Times
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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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Delightfully cheerful screwball comedy that is especially suited for the Christmas holidays.

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12/26/04
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Breezy, fun holiday comedy that has dated somewhat.

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10/14/04
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan

No review available.

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09/03/04
Carol Cling
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08/04/04
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

No review available.

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

Okay, mildly amusing Christmas fare.

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

A gem of a holiday comedy: Stanwyck is adorable

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07/24/03
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

All in all, though, this is all very fluffy and silly and perfectly wonderful.

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

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01/01/00
Pat Graham
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