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Christmas in Connecticut (1945) (DVD)

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

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Genre	Drama, Romance, Comedy
Format	Multiple Formats, NTSC, Dubbed, Black & White, Closed-captioned, 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
Initial release date	2005-11-08
Language	English

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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; 2.56 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 12569677166
Director ‏ : ‎ Peter Godfrey
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, NTSC, Dubbed, Black & White, Closed-captioned, 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, French, Spanish
Producers ‏ : ‎ William Jacobs
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 1.0), Unqualified, French (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Studio Distribution Services
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000B5XOZC
Writers ‏ : ‎ Lionel Houser, Adele Commandini
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Rebecca W.

My favorite Christmas movie

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2023

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If you have never seen this movie and like old fashioned romantic comedies- this is a must see. The female lead Barbara Stanwyck is a Martha Stewart type magazine writer- selling a lifestyle that she does not personally live. Of course in RomCom style, she has to pretend to live it. Excellent. It is in black and white. Highly recommend!

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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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Favorite for Christmas

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2023

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Love watching this at Christmas

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" Oh it's Yardley, he's sending me a sailor for Christmas!"

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2010

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While "Christmas in Connecticut" is not in the upper echelon of the classic Christmas films of the 1940's such as "Holiday Inn"," It's a Wonderful Life", "The Bishop's Wife" or "Miracle on 34th Street", nonetheless it's a delectable sugarplum to make the forthcoming holidays that much cheerier, and give the sometime harried holiday viewer a much needed chuckle.

Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) a young popular writer who is featured in the monthly magazine "Smart Housekeeping" is the Martha Stewart of the 1940's, teaching American housewives to be the perfect wives and mothers. She types her monthly feature from her charming colonial farmhouse in Connecticut in between cooking gourmet meals and caring for her adoring husband and baby. However the truth is it's all a hoax, Elizabeth is single, living in a Manhattan apartment and is given all her delectable recipes by her elderly avuncular friend Felix Bassenak (S.Z.Sakall), a successful restaurant owner. The autocratic owner of the magazine, Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet) unaware of the deception, forces Elizabeth to entertain a young war hero, Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan) as a guest at her home for Christmas so he can sample the domestic joys of an old fashioned Christmas. To further complicate matters, Yardley peremptorily invites himself along as well. What is Elizabeth to do to keep from being discovered and losing both her editor's Dudley Beecham (Robert Shayne) and her own jobs just before Christmas?

Bette Davis originally turned down the role of Elizabeth as being too frivolous wanting to keep to her heavily dramatic fare. Having just played one of the screen's greatest villainesses, the serpentine sociopath Phyllis Didrikson, in "Double Indemnity" Barbara Stanwyck probably welcomed the change of pace. Her Elizabeth Lane is delightful, breezy, savvy, and comical without being featherheaded or losing her femininity, and having a natural, playful sexiness. As her leading man, Dennis Morgan has the requisite manly good looks and low-keyed charm to make the story succeed, in addition to a nice tenor singing voice. The romantic chemistry is potent between the two of them from the initial meeting. They're aided and abetted by two outstanding comic foils in Sydney Greenstreet and S.Z. Sakall who keep the plot bright and bubbling. It's a particular treat to see Greenstreet shedding his sinister screen persona from "The Maltese Falcon" and "Casablanca", and reveal a lighter touch. Some quick nods of approval to Reginald Gardiner as John Sloan, Elizabeth's stuffy would be husband, Una O'Connor as his dry Irish housekeeper, Nora, Robert Shayne as Dudley Beecham, Elizabeth's frazzled editor, and finally Joyce Compton as Mary Lee, the molasses sweet Southern nurse that starts all the trouble.

The sprawling Connecticut farmhouse is wonderful, beautifully furnished and decorated, classic New England, I would have loved to live there kudos for art director Stanley Fleisher. I'm not familiar with the work of either director Peter Godfrey or screenwriter Lionel Houser, but I rate them both an A here for their efforts.

In terms of extras there is a vintage Oscar winning short called "Star in the Night" which is a touching Christmas story, plus the original theatrical trailer. So, if you love Christmas movies I highly recommend you add this to your collection; the Amazon price of $5.49 is a real bargain and it's as rich and as satisfying as a plate full of homemade iced gingerbread people!

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Alexandra R. Hill

One of my Favorite Holiday Movies!

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2023

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I highly recommend this movie - love it! This is one of my favorite Christmas movies!

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Ian Barton

Decent quality DVD

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2023

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Was slightly concerned as import DVD but it played fine, and the picture quality was okay for a film that is now nearly 80 years old!

HorseyGirl

But, can she cook???

Reviewed in Canada on April 30, 2018

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Super Fun Christmas film, that pre-dates Martha Stewart by decades. Smart city girl reporter Barbara Stanwyck writes a very popular homey, recipe-filled column for "Smart Housekeeping". HA! She can't boil water! Her publisher thinks she has a Connecticut farm, a husband and a new baby, plus of course, all the domestic smarts that come with. Much confusion ensues when she must produce them all, at Christmas, and entertain a shipwrecked sailor, who happens to be her #1 Fan. (also pretty hunky, as played by Dennis Morgan). Snappy repartee by the Always Adorable S. Z. "Cuddles" Zakall, the breathy Sydney Greenstreet (of Maltese Falcon fame) and the smooth as silk Reginald Gardiner, as her would-be hubby.
Family friendly, quite funny, and let's face it: Barbara Stanwyck in her hey day~ ENJOY! Merrrrrry Christmas~

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A great movie classic (1945) - seasonal, but still watchable any time of the year. My rating is 8 out of 10.

Reviewed in Canada on December 6, 2017

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A great movie classic (1945) - seasonal, but still watchable any time of the year. Marvellous acting makes the movie a treat to watch... devoid of special effects (by todays standard it is stripped down!) the movie relies on good acting, which it has. A side fascination is the glimpse back in time to the look of social context- behaviours, values, even stage sets using period props. All good and very fascinating. My rating is 8 out of 10.

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Paulette Alain

Arrived in excellent condition!

Reviewed in Canada on August 20, 2021

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It’s a Christmas classic that arrived in perfect condition and played all the way through with no problems!

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Many Christmas films have a moral to them. This is just a fun; good time Christmas Movie.

Reviewed in Canada on January 2, 2019

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Sent for this DVD along with others on December 4, 2018 and received it safely along with others on December 12, 2018. This is one of my favorite Christmas Films as it has zip and pizazz in it and a good cast and is a lively upbeat movie. Good packaging - no damage, played well. Very happy with it.

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