Christmas in Connecticut
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Movie Reviews of Christmas in Connecticut
Movie Review: One of my favorite Christmas films
Summary: 5 Stars
Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck), a successful food writer for Smart Housekeeping (a popular magazine such as Family Circle), writes about her idyllic life on a farm in Connecticut with her husband and baby. Her readers and her publisher, Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet) love her columns and believe them to be true.
The truth is Elizabeth is unmarried, has no child, lives in a New York City apartment, has never lived on a farm, and can't cook. Elizabeth is well paid and loves living in New York. But both her position and her lifestyle are threatened when Yardley decides it would make wonderful publicity for Elizabeth to invite Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan) into her home at Christmas. Jones is a war hero who had spent weeks at sea in a lifeboat after his ship had been sunk. To complicate matters even further, after Yardley is put on an extremely restrictive diet, he decides to invite himself to Elizabeth's farm.
How Elizabeth copes with her dilemma leads to very funny film. You'll roar with laughter at times and the romance that develops between Elizabeth and Jones is both comic and heartwarming. This is one of my favorite Christmas films.
Movie Review: Christmas With Elizabeth Lane, She is No Martha!
Summary: 5 Stars
This classic Christmas movie set just at the end of WW2, is to be Barbra Stanwyck's best role. As Elizabeth Lane she plays a Martha Stewart type mega house wife ala the 1940's. However she is no Martha, Ms. Lane does not cook, sew, she is not married and does not have a baby. OK so Martha isn't married either.
Anyway, as the film opens 2 soldiers survive their ship being torpedoed, and after being nursed back to health, one (Dennis Morgan), is invited to spend Christmas with America's Housewife, Elizabeth Lane, at her country farm house in Connecticut.
Elizabeth has to think fast, and rely's on friends and collegues to assemble her perfect Christmas In Connecticut.
Needless to say as things start to unravel we have almost the 40's answer to "Christmas Vacation" (see my review).
However it all works out in the end, and we are treated to a good old fashioned Hollywood Happy Ending.
For devotee's of classic Christmas movies (Miracle on 34th St., Wonderful Life)this movie is a must have.
Movie Review: A Comedy/Love Story Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great movie from 1945, featuring the incredible Barbara Stanwyck, along with Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, and others you will certainly recognize, but whose names elude me at the moment.
Barbara is Elizabeth Lane, a feature writer for a well-known magazine. She is famous for her cooking articles, which include tid-bits about her life on the farm with her husband and baby. Well, it's all bull and she totters on the edge of the lies when the magazine owner comes over and sends a war-hero sailor (Dennis Morgan) over to her farm to spend the holidays with her and the family. The fib stretching gets real funny as the movie progresses to cover Elizabeth's in-ability to cook, in a farm house that's not hers, with no husband, and CERTAINLY no baby! (This is 1945!) There is a lot of good humor dancing throughout the story. You will definitely love Elizabeth's Uncle, too. He is the real cook.
A Christmas classic, that has been remade in later years, but was never as good as this version.
Movie Review: Charming Original. I Also Liked The Charming Remake!
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this black and white Christmas classic Christmas In Connecticut starring Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan last year when it was shown on Turner Classic movies and I thought it was a very charming movie. It stars Barbara Stanwyck as the star of a radio show who is susposed to be an expert in cooking, decorating, giving advice, etc but she really can't do any of those things but she winds up having to pretend that her friends country cottage is hers, etc, to impress the radio shows owner and sponsors and also a war hero played by Dennis Morgan and she has to pretend to be happily married with a baby and has to pretend that all the meals being prepaired wre made by her and things get complicated when she and the war hero guy start to fall in love but since he believes she is married there are alot of misunderstandings, etc. This is a charming movie and I know I will probably offend some fans of this movie by saying it but I also like the remake that starred Dyan Cannon and Kris Krisoffersen.Movie Review: Great Romantic Comedy for All Seasons
Summary: 5 Stars
Despite the holiday setting, this romantic comedy is watchable all year long. Unlike other "Christmas classics", you don't need to be in a sappy or nostalgic holiday mood to enjoy it. Barbara Stanwyck is at her most charming as Elizabeth Lane, the working city girl who pretends to be Martha Stewart-like for a popular column she writes for a woman's magazine. Her need to put on an act for her boss and a navy soldier during Christmas sets the stage for a wonderful screwball comedy. This film is an excellent showcase of Barbara Stanwyck's comedic talents and the supporting cast is equally superb. Even Dennis Morgan, a handsome and serviceable but generally unmemorable actor, manages to make an impression as the navy man. Highly recommended, but not just for Christmas.
The DVD includes the more traditionally Christmas-themed, Oscar-winning short "Star in the Night" and "Christmas in Connecticut"'s theatrical trailer.
One final thought: Stay away from the dreadful TV-movie remake!!!