Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Review: Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Director: Peter Godfrey

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall,

Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck
Dennis Morgan
Dennis Morgan
Sydney Greenstreet
Sydney Greenstreet
Reginald Gardiner
Reginald Gardiner
S.Z. Sakall
S.Z. Sakall

Plot: 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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