Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

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DerekFME
Not a massively christmassy movie despite being set at christmas. However it makes a brilliant screwball comedy suitable for all the family. Barbara Stanwyck is a delight as ever. 12 years 4 months ago
Siskoid
Christmas in Connecticut is an utterly cute Barbara Stanwyck Christmas screwball comedy in which she, as popular housekeeping writer Elizabeth Lane (cousin of Lois, presumably), is forced to fake the lifestyle she describes in her articles - complete with husband, baby, and farm house in the country - for both her boss and a war hero who's apparently never known hominess... Well, it's complicated because it's screwball, and it's very amusing, even if the ensuing romantic triangle is edgeless. Stanwyck owns this, but even if she plays the romance opposite some 2-dimensional non-starters, she's well supported by the rest of the ensemble, including a boisterous Sydney Greenstreet (in full satire mode), the more overt comic relief S.Z. Sakall (endearing though sometimes hard to understand through his accent), and people might not think to mention her, but Una O'Connor as the prim, disapproving maid. Prepare yourself for some fun, witty comedy, and don't look at the romantic relationships too closely. 5 years 4 months ago