John austin Christmas in Connecticut has been my number one favorite Christmas movie ever since I first saw it as a kid. It's that picture perfect Christmas post card from wartime Hollywood that plays into everyone's fantasy about leaving the city for life on a Connecticut farm. Barbara Stanwyck stars as an independent 1940s woman who writes a cooking column for Smart Housekeeping Magazine. Her stodgy and demanding boss invites himself to her Connecticut farm when she agrees to play host to a sailor who just came home from the war. See the movie to find out what havoc ensues.There's a good cast all around, especially Dennis Morgan as the sailor and Sidney Greenstreet as the stuffy magazine executive who just sees Christmas as a business opportunity until all the screwball comedy loose ends get tied together on Christmas Day. S.Z. Sakall and Una O'Connor have big comic supporting roles as well. This movie is a gem from that bygone era of Hollywood before they became what they are today. After you see it once, you'll want to revisit it every year.

MArgie Martin Do you love films about "Christmas"? If you do then you must see this film. Because its is an old film there is something about this film that makes it timeless and most of all enjoyable. Christmas in Connecticut is a story about Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) is a single food writer living in New York whose articles about her fictitious Connecticut farm, husband and baby are admired by housewives across the country. Her publisher, Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet), is unaware of the charade and insists that Elizabeth host a Christmas dinner for returning war hero Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan), who read all of her recipes while in the hospital, and is so fond of her that his nurse wrote a letter to the publisher. Facing a career-ending scandal, not only for herself, but also for her editor, Dudley Beecham (Robert Shayne), Lane is forced to comply. In desperation, Elizabeth agrees to marry her friend John Sloan (Reginald Gardiner), who has a farm in Connecticut, even though she does not love him. She also enlists the help of another friend, chef Felix Bassenak (S.Z. Sakall), who has been providing her with the recipes for her articles.Heads up. There is something said in this film that I had to look up. At the beginning you hear "The Old Magoo". It helps to know that "Magoo" is "Someone is too good to be true". One of my favorite films to see. If you have to buy it DO IT!

jarrodmcdonald-1 It was interesting to watch a holiday movie in August. I do think these stories should air year round and not just in December. I had never seen Christmas IN CONNECTICUT all the way through. Well, now, I finally have. I found myself focusing on S.Z. Sakall's performance as Felix the cook-- you know, the guy who says "everything is hunky-dunky!" But in addition to Sakall, the rest of the cast shines too-- and it's obvious they were all having fun making this film. There's a lot of screwball comedy here, and the dialogue is just so intentionally silly in spots that you can't help but love it. Sakall's scenes with Stanwyck are quite good, but his scenes with Greenstreet are even better. And there's a scene at his restaurant early in the film where he walks around and doesn't have dialogue. If you watch that part carefully, you will see a great bit of improvisation. Truly one of the best character actors in Hollywood during the 1940s.

jackgriffin1-1 This is my favorite Christmas movie. I love it. I have friends over to watch it. I watch it in June. I'm definitely not a fan of Hollywood propaganda wartime films but this transcends the others. The war is a background to the sweetest holiday film ever made.Stanwyck is great as the slightly unscrupulous writer, Greenstreet is great as her boss, Morgan is incredibly likable, Una O'Connor is Una O'Connor, Gardiner is OK as,I guess,the villain, but for me the star is S.Z Sakall (who refused to have makeup applied to his ears). His lines include:"She put the watch in his mouth". "Kidneys!!!" "Now it's goulash".This is the warmest Christmas film I have ever seen. It's one of the few films where I think, "I wish I was there." The house they are staying in is the perfect Christmas cottage. The meals they prepare are perfect. The whole feeling of the film is the embodiment of Christmas.So to sum up, this film is VERY HONKY DONKEY!!!