Christmas in Connecticut
The romancin's rosy and the fun's furious and everybody's going to be there! You're invited!
1945 | 102m | English
Popularity: 0.7 (history)
| Director: | Peter Godfrey |
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| Writer: | Adele Comandini, Lionel Houser, Aileen Hamilton |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jul 27, 1945 |
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| Director: | Peter Godfrey |
| Writer: | Adele Comandini, Lionel Houser, Aileen Hamilton |
| Genres: | Comedy, Romance |
| Keywords | holiday, nurse, infant, connecticut, deception, romance, chef, war hero, sailor, farm house, editor, rocking chair, christmas, domesticity, columnist, idyllic, shipwreck survivors, rural, independent woman, holiday romance, magazine writer, magazine publisher |
| Production Companies | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $3,000,000
Budget: $864,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 (Update) Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Barbara Stanwyck | Elizabeth Lane |
| Dennis Morgan | Jefferson Jones |
| Sydney Greenstreet | Alexander Yardley |
| Reginald Gardiner | John Sloan |
| S.Z. Sakall | Felix Bassenak |
| Robert Shayne | Dudley Beecham |
| Una O'Connor | Norah |
| Frank Jenks | Sinkewicz |
| Joyce Compton | Nurse Mary Lee |
| Dick Elliott | Judge Crothers |
| Betty Alexander | Nurse Smith (uncredited) |
| Charles Arnt | Homer Higgenbottom (uncredited) |
| Arthur Aylesworth | Sleigh Driver (uncredited) |
| Walter Baldwin | Herb, the Sheriff (uncredited) |
| Edward Biby | Restaurant Patron (uncredited) |
| Marie Blake | Mrs. Wright (uncredited) |
| George Boyce | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| Lillian Bronson | Secretary (uncredited) |
| Bob Burns | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| Oliver Cross | Restaurant Patron (uncredited) |
| John Dehner | State Trooper #2 (uncredited) |
| Charles Flynn | U-Boat Torpedo Man (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Allen Fox | Postman (uncredited) |
| James Frasco | Baby (uncredited) |
| Jody Gilbert | Mrs. Gerseg (uncredited) |
| Sam Harris | Man at Dance (uncredited) |
| Olaf Hytten | Elkins (uncredited) |
| Fred Kelsey | Harper (uncredited) |
| Kurt Kreuger | U-Boat Sailor (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Pat Lane | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Wilbur Mack | Restaurant Patron (uncredited) |
| Charles Marsh | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Jack Mower | State Trooper #1 (uncredited) |
| Barry Norton | Restaurant Patron (uncredited) |
| John O'Connor | Deliveryman (uncredited) |
| Jeffrey Sayre | Officer in Restaurant (uncredited) |
| Scott Seaton | Restaurant Patron (uncredited) |
| Charles Sherlock | Bartender (uncredited) |
| Emmett Smith | Sam (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Peter Godfrey | Director |
| Edith Head | Costume Design |
| Friedrich Hollaender | Original Music Composer |
| Stanley Fleischer | Art Direction |
| Milo Anderson | Costume Design |
| Frank Magee | Editor |
| Adele Comandini | Screenplay |
| Lionel Houser | Screenplay |
| Aileen Hamilton | Story |
| Perc Westmore | Makeup Artist |
| Casey Roberts | Set Decoration |
| Carl E. Guthrie | Director of Photography |
| Lou Jennings | Additional Camera |
| Everett Alton Brown | Sound |
| Jerome Moross | Orchestrator |
| Leo F. Forbstein | Music Director |
| Jack Scholl | Songs |
| M.K. Jerome | Songs |
| Claude Archer | Assistant Director |
| Charles David Forrest | Sound Mixer |
| William C. McGann | Special Effects |
| Willard Van Enger | Visual Effects |
| Gerald W. Alexander | Sound Mixer |
| Robert G. Wayne | Sound Mixer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Jack L. Warner | Executive Producer |
| William Jacobs | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 7 |
| 2024 | 5 | 14 | 20 | 7 |
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| 2024 | 7 | 13 | 31 | 7 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 9 | 15 | 7 |
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| 2025 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Very charming film is more a straight romantic comedy than a Christmas film per se, but any chance to see cinematic greats such as Barbara Stanwyck (especially at this vintage) and, one of the finest character actors ever in Sydney Greenstreet, together is definitely not a lump of coal in a cinephil ... e's Christmas stocking, no-siree!
I greatly loved this yuletide film, with excellent performances by Barbara Stanwyck and Sydney Greenstreet, and fine direction by Peter Godfrey. Had they a stronger actor in the lead than Dennis Morgan, it would be a perfect film, but it's still a wonderful Christmas perennial and favourite to watch ... . The Oscar-winning short Star in the Night, directed by Don Siegel and a bonus on this DVD, is even better...Very charming film is more a straight romantic comedy than a Christmas film per se, but any chance to see cinematic greats such as Barbara Stanwyck (especially at this vintage) and, one of the finest character actors ever in Sydney Greenstreet, together is definitely not a lump of coal in a cinephile's Christmas stocking, no-siree!
I greatly loved this yuletide film, with excellent performances by Barbara Stanwyck and Sydney Greenstreet, and fine direction by Peter Godfrey. Had they a stronger actor in the lead than Dennis Morgan, it would be a perfect film, but it's still a wonderful Christmas perennial and favourite to watch ... . The Oscar-winning short Star in the Night, directed by Don Siegel and a bonus on this DVD, is even better...Very charming film is more a straight romantic comedy than a Christmas film per se, but any chance to see cinematic greats such as Barbara Stanwyck (especially at this vintage) and, one of the finest character actors ever in Sydney Greenstreet, together is definitely not a lump of coal in a cinephile's Christmas stocking, no-siree!