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Christmas in Connecticut (1945) (DVD)

Barbara Stanwyck (Actor), Dennis Morgan (Actor), Peter Godfrey (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Comedy
Format	Multiple Formats, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled
Contributor	Barbara Stanwyck, S.Z. Sakall, Una O'Connor, Frank Jenks, Reginald Gardiner, Joyce Compton, Robert Shayne, Dennis Morgan, Dick Elliott, William Jacobs, Adele Commandini, Sydney Greenstreet, Lionel Houser, Peter Godfrey See more
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 41 minutes

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Christmas in Connecticut (1945) (DVD)

Barbara Stanwyck stars as a famous expert on marriage, cooking and homemaking who is asked by her publisher to host a national hero for Christmas dinner at her famous Connecticut home. It should be simple, but she must scramble to keep the secret that she's single, can't cook and doesn't own a home. With a lot of help, meticulous planning and split-second timing, the urban sophisticate may succeed . . . but the unforeseen happens when she falls in love with her guest in this classic romantic comedy.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 1.76 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 12569677166
Director ‏ : ‎ Peter Godfrey
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 41 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ November 8, 2005
Actors ‏ : ‎ Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish, French
Producers ‏ : ‎ William Jacobs
Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 1.0), French (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Studio ‏ : ‎ WarnerBrothers
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000B5XOZC
Writers ‏ : ‎ Lionel Houser, Adele Commandini
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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A favorite. Stanwyck is terrific.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2022

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Barbara Stanwyck is in two of my favorite Christmas movies, “Christmas in Connecticut” and “Remember the Night.” For now, only “Christmas in Connecticut” is available on Prime Video.

It’s an incredibly charming and amusing movie, with Stanwyck being the author of a monthly Martha-Stewart type column, describing her life in her country home and supplying her readers with delectable recipes. Only she can’t cook and she lives in a small apartment. It’s all a fake, which leads to hilarious results.

To be fair, the movie is not very Christmas-oriented, as Christmas is just a reason to get all the characters together.

Stanwyck is certainly the star of this movie, but she has lots of help from S.Z. Zakall, Una O’Connor, Reginald Gardiner, Sydney Greenstreet and Dennis Morgan.

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Still wonderful after all these years, and great historical insights!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 30, 2022

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Though slightly romanticized, this movie is a must-see to understand society (and how it changed) at the end of World War II. Yes, women worked, and - as lifestyle journalists - even bluffed their way through what they wrote. And romance could be a somewhat "musical chairs" experience, as singles suddenly had more opportunities to meet and fall in love.

This is a delightful, feel-good romantic comedy. If you like "White Christmas" (the classic), I think you'll enjoy this, too. I'm not sure it's something to watch every year, year-after-year, but it's worth seeing at least once or twice.

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ginnylmom

A feel good movie

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 21, 2023

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We watch this movie every year. It’s a cute story with great music. Wonderful retro film. Very relaxing to watch it. We love it.

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Karla Berthel

Great Movie classic.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 25, 2023

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Great Movie, a must see. Great gift idea. Good price and quality.

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Randoon

Funny

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2023

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The acting is really good for a movie of that time. Well written and a great storyline.

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Anita Cooper

Christmas in Connecticut

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 20, 2023

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Great show. I always enjoy watching it!

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mcjean78

Cheered Me Up Even with Covid

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 21, 2022

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An absolute delight of a care free ridiculous charming movie. My husband and I came down with Covid 4 days before Christmas Eve so we’re isolating to Christmas movies. I love this movie and am almost thankful to have Covid and watch this movie.

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johnf

Lots of laughs in this classic Christmas film.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 28, 2017

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One of the funniest Christmas movies ever made, it's good to see that Christmas in Connecticut is not just still remembered, but seems to be picking up new fans every year. One of the keys to its popularity is that it avoids the current notion that a Christmas film has to have a big message and instead keeps the focus on the laughs. It's really a comedy set during Christmas. It's light and breezy but also full of charm and warmth. It's shot in black & white, which I only mention because some people still want everything in color. Barbara Stanwyck is columnist Elizabeth Lane who writes domestic stories about her husband and new child and their idyllic life on their Connecticut farm, a forties version of Martha Stewart. Each column features a new recipe. It's all a fantasy which Lane imagines each month from her New York apartment with the recipes supplied by her friend Felix (S.Z. Sakall), who owns a Hungarian restaurant on 46th Street complete with a cimbalom player.

This works well until the publisher, the imperious Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet), is sold on the idea of sending a war hero, a sailor (Dennis Morgan) who survived 18 days on a life raft, to her farm to have a real family Christmas., This setup is handled really well as a kind of dramatic prologue that opens this holiday film improbably underwater in a submarine. Yardley's family won't be coming up this year from Florida so he decides to spend his holiday at Lane's perfect Connecticut farm as well. This creates a potentially job-losing dilemma for Lane. With the help of architect and lukewarm suitor John Sloan (Reginald Gardiner) who happens to have a Connecticut farmhouse he's been renovating. and Felix with his chef's talents she hopes to fool both the sailor and Yardley. The resulting comedy of errors builds on itself getting ever more complicated and outrageous yet without really seeming impossible.

The wonderful cast makes the film really sparkle. Barbara Stanwyck usually played serious leads in films like Double Indemnity and this rare comic outing shows she had the knack for comedy. Sydney Greenstreet played nothing but villains in films like The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca and it's a delight to see him lighten up. here. His role is tricky because though he is really kind-hearted, he hides it under a gruff exterior and being a very powerful man can still be dangerous if crossed. S.Z. Sakall, a Hungarian comic actor who had fled the Nazis, had made a splash as Carl, the head waiter in Casablanca and was about to begin playing a long line of befuddled European uncle-types in many films. His Felix is his first role of this type and in this film he's also a kind of magical character who helps things right themselves in the end.

Dennis Morgan as the sailor has a tricky role because he's such a normal All-American guy type, but he manages to exude warmth and adds a believability to the romance in the film. A singer, he gets a nice scene at the piano while Stanwyck decorates an enormous Christmas Tree. Reginald Gardiner wants to marry Stanwyck but it seems he really wants a trophy wife. When he kisses her he immediately begins to discuss plumbing (when Morgan kisses her, harps play). Gardiner gives a cabbie a dime for a tip on a dollar fare while Morgan gives a delivery boy a dollar tip on a dollar delivery. The two could not be more different. Una O'Connor, a veteran of many classic films is great as Norah, Sloan's cook who doesn't appreciate Felix putting paprika in her Irish stew.

It's all good fun and Warner Brothers went all out with a great set perfect for the era, when renovating old farmhouses into rustic showplaces was a very hip thing. They even open things up outdoors for a town dance and sleighride scene. The script is light and breezy and always funny. In the end even the fat man says, "What a Christmas!".

EXTRA NOTE: Barbara Stanwyck made an earlier Christmas movie with Fred MacMurray in 1940 titled Remember the Night. It is a quiet film that works its Christmas magic on you subtly and is very worthwhile. It's rare (I had to buy the DVD because no one was streaming it. Maybe someone is now or it might be on TV).

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perhaps because it starred one of my favourite actresses, we we don't have any actress today ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 24, 2015

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i remembered this film from childhood I found it just as enjoyable now as I did then, perhaps because it starred one of my favourite actresses, we
we don't have any actress today who can compete with Barbara Stanwyck

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hypatiamarshall

Be careful. Spanish can be turned to English.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 13, 2017

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Be careful. Spanish can be turned to English.

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Steve Price

Essential Christmas movie

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 17, 2014

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An essential addition to the family collection of traditional Christmas movies - they don't make Christmas movies like this anymore

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Lisa parkinson

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 22, 2016

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R Colville

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 12, 2014

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Classic oldie

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