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Movie

Christmas in Connecticut

1945NR1h 42m7.0 / 10

The romancin's rosy and the fun's furious and everybody's going to be there! You're invited!

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.

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

Barbara StanwyckElizabeth Lane
Dennis MorganJefferson Jones
Sydney GreenstreetAlexander Yardley
Reginald GardinerJohn Sloan
S.Z. SakallFelix Bassenak
Robert ShayneDudley Beecham
Una O'ConnorNorah
Frank JenksSinkewicz

Credits

Directed by
Peter Godfrey
Written by
Adele Comandini, Lionel Houser, Aileen Hamilton

Production details

Status
Released
Original language
English
Budget
$864K
Box office
$3M

Production

  • Warner Bros. PicturesUnited States

Themes

black and whitechefchristmascolumnistconnecticutdeceptiondomesticityeditor