Fresh
Frolicsome in an artificially hearty sort of way.
Pat Graham, Chicago Reader
Christmas in Connecticut
The romancin's rosy and the fun's furious and everybody's going to be there! You're invited!
1945 · 1h 42m · Approved
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Peter Godfrey
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Christmas in Connecticut
Overview
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
Director and cast
- Peter Godfrey Director
- Barbara Stanwyck as Elizabeth Lane
- Dennis Morgan as Jefferson Jones
- Sydney Greenstreet as Alexander Yardley
- Reginald Gardiner as John Sloan
- S.Z. Sakall as Felix Bassenak
- Robert Shayne as Dudley Beecham
- Una O'Connor as Norah
- Frank Jenks as Sinkewicz
- Joyce Compton as Nurse Mary Lee
- Dick Elliott as Judge Crothers
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Thoroughly moth-eaten.
TIME Magazine
Rotten
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.
New York Times
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