Christmas in Connecticut

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

1945 1h 42m EN

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7.0

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89%

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METACRITIC

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7.3

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★7.0TMDB · 182🍅89%Rotten Tomatoes●64Metacritic★7.3IMDB · 13,029

ComedyRomance

Synopsis

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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.

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

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Cast

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

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Peter Godfrey
Writers: Lionel Houser, Adele Comandini, Aileen Hamilton
Languages: English, German
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.9M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 3.5× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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81 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, German.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Peter Godfrey, shot by Carl E. Guthrie. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Friedrich Hollaender. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Frank Magee shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan and Sydney Greenstreet carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Peter Godfrey directs. Carl E. Guthrie behind the camera. Friedrich Hollaender scores. Frank Magee cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, German.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $0.9M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Made its money back 3.5× over at the box office.
381 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
4Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, German.
5Directed by Peter Godfrey, shot by Carl E. Guthrie. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Friedrich Hollaender. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Frank Magee shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan and Sydney Greenstreet carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "The romancin's rosy and the fun's furious and everybody's going to be there! You're invited!".
10IMDB entry: tt0037595 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 25 themes, including "nurse", "holiday", "infant", "deception".
12Released under 13 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Carl E. Guthrie
Original score: Friedrich Hollaender
Editing: Frank Magee
Costume design: Milo Anderson
Makeup / hair: Perc Westmore
Runtime: 102 min · 1h 42m
Status: Released
Budget: $864,000
Box office: $3,000,000
Return: 347% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes: 89% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 64/100
IMDB rating: 7.3/10 · 13,029 votes
MPAA: Approved

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talisencrw2016-04-11
★ 9/10
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!
talisencrw2016-04-11
★ 9/10
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!