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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9781419818653
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1419818651
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 08, 2005
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 1813
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 11, 1945
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Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writer. In her columns she describes herself as a hard working farm woman taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality she is an umarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The recipes come from her good friend Felix. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his christmas on *her* farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the truth comes out but what can she do?Running Time: 101 min.System Requirements:Running Time 101 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHRISTMAS/CHRISTMAS UPC: 012569677166
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Christmas in Connecticut is a holiday film that plays 365 days of the year. Barbara Stanwyck gives a brilliant, sardonic performance as Elizabeth Lane, a columnist for Smart Housekeeping magazine, whose enticing descriptions of the exquisite meals she prepares for her husband and baby on their bucolic Connecticut farm earns her fame as "America's Best Cook." A writer, she is; a cook, she is not. As she types the words, "From my living room window, as I write, the good cedar logs cracking on the fire..." the view is of clothes flapping on the line outside her bachelorette Manhattan apartment. An able supporting cast keeps her lie on life support: her editor, her stuffy and detestable architect suitor, and the wonderful "Uncle" Felix (S.Z. Sakall), an English-garbling Hungarian chef who provides the recipes that fill her column.
Cut to Jefferson Jones, a sailor adrift at sea for weeks after his destroyer is torpedoed. Memories of the food described in Lane's columns are central to his survival. After his rescue, as he's recuperating in a naval hospital, a marriage-minded nurse thinks she might nudge Jones to the altar if he could only experience a real domestic Christmas. And it just so happens that she was nurse to the grandchild of Alexander Yardley, the wealthy and powerful publisher of --you guessed it--Smart Housekeeping magazine. And so, she pens the letter that could unravel Lane's carefully constructed fraud. She writes to Yardley asking that Jones be included in America's ultimate Christmas--the one to be held at the Lane family farm in Connecticut. The pompous Yardley (ably portrayed by Sidney Greenstreet) believes the Lane myth and instantly sniffs a story that will send his magazine's circulation skyrocketing. And staring down a lonely holiday, he decides to join the Lanes for Christmas on the farm, too. Now, all Lane has to do is come up with a farm. And a husband. And let's not forget the baby. Christmas in Connecticut is classic screwball entertainment of the best kind, with its on-target skewering of social convention and house-of- cards-about-to-tumble tension: a perfect farcical vision of domestic blitz. --Susan Benson
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Our whole family loves this movie. Barbara Stanwyck plays a writer who pretends to be married with a baby and pretends she's an expert at cooking, sewing, and overall home-making. Her boss decides that she should have a recovering military man to her country home (which she doesn't have) for Christmas so he can experience cozy home-life over the holidays. Then, her boss manages to invite himself along, too! She feels sure she's just lost her job and this will be the worst Christmas ever.... but ... Read More
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I watch this every Christmas. This is one of my favorite Christmas shows. It is fun and light hearted.
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Someone just told me about this movie, right after I mentioned that my name was Elizabeth Lane and I work in publishing. I can't wait to see it -- it sounds like a fun classic! All the great reviews here make the movie sound unbeatable.
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This has been my favorite holiday movie for a long, long time. I think one of the main reasons is the time-frame. I adore anything from the 40's. The story revolves around an accomplished and much-loved magazine writer who pretends to write about her life on a farm in Connecticut. Enter one returing WWII hero and her boss and you have the makings of Christmas chaos and romantic fun that never ends! A joy to watch for the whole family.
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This movie is a Christmas "must watch" along with the usual suspects. It's light, funny and shows a different side of Barbara Stanwyck.
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