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Barbara Stanwyck, Sydney Greenstreet, and Dennis Morgan in Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

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Christmas in Connecticut

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8/10

A warm and fuzzy Christmas comedy

Barbara Stanwyck could convey merriment, realization, longing and enchantment with a throaty chuckle, a knowing look, a downward glance and a dazzling smile. Boy, does she nail it all in this film. Christmas in Connecticut is one of the most romantic, fun holiday movies with even a cow that nudges the fireworks between Stanwyck, she a food writer with no actual culinary skills and an imaginary farm, and Dennis Morgan as the sailor sent to celebrate a swell ( but trumped up) holiday gathering at her home.

Dennis Morgan singing his gorgeous tenor voice in a spectacular living room overlooking a snowy landscape wishing Stanwyck was his, while Stanwyck decorates the tree, wishing he was hers, is a dreamy, fabulous scene. So is the hoedown on Christmas night as the two glory in promenading and meaningful looks and then escape to a sled, just to sit mind you, while the horse has other ideas and takes them for a ride on a starry night.

The supporting cast is a right-on combo. S. Z. Sakall plays the kindly restaurant owner who supplies Stanwyck with the succulent recipes, who is wise in picking up the vibes between Stanwyck and Morgan and supporting the match - the alternative is Reginald Gardiner, the loyal but boring boyfriend with the farm, who hopes to turn Stanwyck's made-up premise of farm and marriage into the real thing. The ins and outs of the plot are skillful and clever and there are even two babies in the mix adding to the belly laughs. It's a great holiday film that says goodbye to the war years.
  • AlsExGal
  • 15 जुल॰ 2021
  • परमालिंक
8/10

The Moonlight and the Snow…and the Cow

The destroyer of Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan) and his partner Sinkewicz (Frank Jenks) is sunk by the Germans and they float adrift in a raft for eighteen days. When they are rescued, they are sent to a hospital and Jefferson has to follow a stringent diet imposed by the doctors. He seduces his nurse expecting to get solid food and she decides to write to Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet), who is the owner of the Smart Housekeeping magazine where the famous journalist Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) writes a column about recipes and food, asking him to allow Jefferson to spend Christmas with Elizabeth and her family in her farm in Connecticut. The prepotent Yardley sees the chance of free promotion of his magazine and forces Elizabeth to invite the hero Jones.

However, Elizabeth is single, does not have a baby and lives alone in a small apartment in New York and she made-up a perfect married life for her fans. Further, she does not how to cook and the recipes belong to her Hungarian friend Felix Bassenak (S.Z. Sakall), who owns a restaurant in New York. The architect John Sloan (Reginald Gardiner), who has been wooing Elizabeth for a long, proposes to marry her in his farm in Connecticut and she brings Felix with her to help to proceed the farce. The things get complicated when Yardley also decides to spend Christmas with Elizabeth while she falls in love with Jones.

"Christmas in Connecticut" is a delightful and witty comedy of errors about a famous food writer that makes up a fictitious life and has guests to her world. I have just bought this DVD and it was the perfect entertainment for a rainy Sunday afternoon, with hilarious situations and wonderful performances. "Christmas in Connecticut" is indeed a must- see for the Christmas period. My vote is eight.

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  • claudio_carvalho
  • 8 दिस॰ 2012
  • परमालिंक
7/10

Hunky Dunky!

This romantic comedy stars Barbara Stanwyck as Elizabeth Lane, a woman who writes a lifestyles column for a popular magazine. Her publisher commands that she host and prepare a dinner for Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan), a sailor who was lost at sea for eighteen days. Because Miss Lane's own lifestyle is a literary fabrication, she resorts to an elaborate ruse. Her deception has consequences that complicate matters, leading to both romance and comedy.

There is a strong supporting cast, including "Cuddles" Sakall and Sidney Greenstreet, who is fun to watch in a comedic role.

Stanwyck and Morgan display a convincing chemistry that is the focus of the film.
  • atlasmb
  • 11 दिस॰ 2022
  • परमालिंक

Pleasing holiday comedy thanks to splendid cast...

Anyone who has watched the recent remake of 'Christmas in Connecticut' will fully appreciate just how wonderful the slim story was in the hands of Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan and Sydney Greenstreet. No masterpiece, but so much better than the weak remake. The whole film revolves around the mistaken belief by editor Greenstreet that Stanwyck (his favorite Martha Stewart-type of writer) is a homemaker with a house, husband and baby in the country. This, of course, means that the inventive woman has to enlist the aid of others to play out her scheme when Greenstreet invites himself and a ship-wrecked sailor (Dennis Morgan) for the holiday week-end.

The slight comedy develops a few complications along the way--and it all looks very holidayish with the lovely country home in Connecticut--which, thanks to Warner Bros. art decoration, looks like something from a magazine cover. Stanwyck's forte is really heavy drama but here she displays a light enough touch to make her scenes with Morgan and Greenstreet delightful to watch. She gets great support from Una O'Connor, S.Z. Sakall and Reginald Gardiner under Peter Godfrey's light-hearted direction.

It's as unpretentious a confection as a child's homemade Christmas card and just as charming--light and fluffy entertainment that makes no great demands on your viewing pleasure. Worth viewing, especially around the holidays.
  • Doylenf
  • 5 नव॰ 2001
  • परमालिंक
7/10

A cure for a lonely Christmas

Christmas In Connecticut is, in my estimation, one of the most breezy, runaway joys to have reached the screen. Controversially, I find it plays out better than many other Christmas movies like It's A Wonderful Life. Christmas is a time to be merry and happy, to feel the warmth and cosiness of one's comfortable physical and human surroundings amid the cold harsh winter outside. This movie, through superbly acted characters, achieves just this.

The movie is unabashedly a joyous comedy which does not feel constrained to representing reality with some moments of sentimentality. The rich atmosphere it creates from its talented cast achieves just that. Sydney Greenstreets performance is just fantastic, playing a newspaper mogul whose authority and confidence means he does not know how to shut up and listen to people. This character trait of him is played for laughs, endearing the audience with him. Barbra stanwyck is also pitch perfect as the flustered writer who now has to navigate cobwebs of lies she spun herself. S Z Sakall is also exquisite as her well meaning friend. He steals the scenes which he is in, playing matchmaker for our two leads, and his character oozes loads of likeability. We all wish we really did have an uncle like him. Part of the great fun of this film is, inevitably watching how Stanwycks Lane has to navigate the web of lies she has spun for herself, and this plays out delightfully. The schemes and plots through which Sakall helps postpone the imminent wedding is also funny. The only complaint however is that the film is of course predictable and formulaic- the old romcom formula of having two leads separated, then reunited is adhered to stringently here. But that shan't be too much of a deterrent especially for a Christmas film, for it is the process by which out two leads are pulled apart and get back together we are interested in, and this process is delectably charming in this film. Christmas in Connecticut is a pleasantly breezy film that takes its place among the great Christmas films, and it warms the cockles of the heart- the cure for a lonely Christmas.
  • timothywalton-31924
  • 4 जून 2023
  • परमालिंक
10/10

The best Christmas gift one can receive!

This Christmas gift arrived courtesy of TCM. We had never seen the film, even though we have seen most of the films of Barbara Stanwyck. This comedy made us laugh so much, that at times, we had to restrain ourselves, in order to hear the dialog.

This is a movie that should be seen by people suffering from stressful situations, especially around Christmas. It would certainly lift one's spirits by just letting go. The movie would make a perfect gift in the form of a DVD, or a VHS tape.

"Christmas in Connecticut" was directed with great panache by Peter Godfrey, based on a story by Aileen Hamilton.

The best thing in the movie is the felicitous pairing of two of the most popular stars of that era: Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan. Barbara Stanwyck always played strong willed women, obviously, this was a change of pace for her. In this film, as well as "Lady Eve", Ms. Stanwyck displays a knack for comedy. She and Mr. Morgan, who played in a lot of musical comedies, make a winning combination.

There are no weak performances in the film. Sydney Greenstreet, an actor notorious for playing 'heavies', is a delight to watch as the rich, and fat, Alexander Yardley, the man who owned a media empire and who knew a good thing when he saw it. Reginald Gardiner, an accomplished English actor, adds luster to the stellar cast behind the two principals.

S. Z. Sakall, is another source of continuous mirth; he plays the Hungarian chef Felix,who has a hard time with his own version of the English language. Also, Una O'Connor makes a perfect Norah, the housekeeper in the Sloan perfect Connecticut farm.

In reading other comments in this forum, it's sad to learn that the glorious black and white cinematography is not appreciated by some people. After all, color was not widely used in the 40s, and most of the classic movies have to be seen in its original format because, what would be accomplished in 'coloring' them?

This film should be a requirement for anyone looking to spend almost two hours of uninterrupted fun at Christmas time because total merriment is assured. Watch it with an open mind and heart an maybe you'd like to see "Christmas in Connecticut" every year.
  • jotix100
  • 24 दिस॰ 2004
  • परमालिंक
7/10

Cute Rom-Com

Dated in a few places, but almost like a holiday themed three's company episode with lies and misunderstandings that spiral out of control. It's inoffensive and charming, if slight.
  • jellopuke
  • 7 दिस॰ 2020
  • परमालिंक
10/10

Transporting And Delightful

From the perspective of the hectic, contemporary world in which we live, the so called `good old days' always seem so much more serene and innocent; an idyllic era gone by of which we have only memories and shadows that linger on the silver screen, as with `Christmas In Connecticut,' a warm and endearing film directed by Peter Godfrey. Barbara Stanwyck stars as Elizabeth Lane, a popular `Martha Stewart' type magazine columnist who writes about life on her beloved farm in Connecticut, always with the latest recipe at the center of the story. One of her biggest fans is Alexander Yardley, played by Sidney Greenstreet, the publisher of the magazine for which she writes. Yardley has never visited her farm, and in response to an idea expressed to him in a letter from a nurse, Mary (Joyce Compton), he decides to spend an old fashioned Christmas with Elizabeth, her husband and child and, as a special guest, a certain Mr. Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan), a sailor just recovered from spending fifteen days at sea on a raft after his ship was torpedoed. Elizabeth of course cannot refuse her boss, but there are problems; not the least of which is the fact that she has no farm and writes her column from the comfort of a high-rise in the city. It makes for a precarious situation for her as well as her editor, Dudley Beecham (Robert Shayne), as the one thing Mr. Yardley demands from his employees is total honesty. What follows is a charming and delightfully romantic comedy that transports the audience back to a seemingly more simple time and place, to share a Christmas Past where a warm hearth, good food and kindness prevail.

Barbara Stanwyck absolutely sparkles as Elizabeth, with a smile and presence warmer than anything the grandest hearth could provide, and totally convincing as a city girl entirely out of her element on the farm. Morgan also fares well as the somewhat naive sailor, whose trust in his fellow man is admirable. Even with the deceptions being played out around him, he's the kind of guy you know will somehow land on his feet, and in the end it's Elizabeth you really feel for. One of the true delights of this film, however, is Sidney Greenstreet. His Yardley has a gruff exterior, but beneath you know without a doubt that this is a man with a heart as big as Texas. It's a straightforward, honest portrayal, and it's a joy to watch him work; the most memorable scenes in the movie belong to him.

The supporting cast includes Reginald Gardiner (John Sloan), the terrific Una O'Connor (Norah), Frank Jenks (Sinkewicz) and Dick Elliott (Judge Crothers). A feel-good movie that plays especially well during the Christmas Season (though it would work any time of the year), `Christmas In Connecticut' is a memorable film that never takes itself too seriously, is thoroughly uplifting and will leave you with a warm spot in your heart and a sense of peace that makes the world seem like a good place to be. It's a true classic, and one you do not want to miss. I rate this one 10/10.
  • jhclues
  • 19 दिस॰ 2000
  • परमालिंक
7/10

Cute family-friendly Xmas movie

While this movie is a little silly, the premise is pretty hilarious and still relevant today, which is probably why there was a remake in 1992. A woman famous for her cookbooks is hiding a secret from America: she doesn't know how to cook! While she always references her family and farm in Connecticut, she actually lives alone in New York. So, when her publisher arranges a good-will publicity campaign for her to have a war hero over to her Connecticut home for Christmas dinner, she's got to hire a pretend family-and learn how to cook-fast!

With Barbara Stanwyck perfect in a role reminiscent of Woman of the Year, Dennis Morgan as the returning war hero, and Sydney Greenstreet as the unsuspecting publisher, this is a great flick to rent during the holiday season. Yes, it's a little silly, but at Christmastime, silly movies are allowed, aren't they? You might not end up owning this one, but it's entertaining to watch with the family every few years.
  • HotToastyRag
  • 29 सित॰ 2018
  • परमालिंक
9/10

Who "Elizabeth Lane" was REALLY based on.

At the time that this movie was made most housewives knew exactly who Barbara Stanwick was parodying.Today only some women over 50 probably remember Gladys Taber,whose column "Butternut Wisdom" ran in Family Circle Magazine from before World War II until the 1970's.She lived on Stillmeadow Farm in Conecticut,and her columns were collected into a number of books,Stillmeadow Seasons, Stillmeadow Daybook, etc. The lines that Barbara Stanwick recites as she types them for her column are quite typical of the ones that began a typical Gladys Taber column.Besides cooking and country living,she got rather nostalgic and philosophical at times.She talked a lot about her favorite dogs, mostly cocker spaniels.You might say that Martha Stewart is the Gladys Tabor of today.

Christmas is Connecticut may not be any cinematic masterpiece,but it is pleasant,lighthearted entertainment,soothing to the stressed out mind,and that is good enough
  • edalweber
  • 17 नव॰ 2006
  • परमालिंक
7/10

When the Christmas tree is up watch this film with your family

A lighthearted, joyful comedy that gives the new, superbly comedic, meaning to a traditional Christmas party. Very amusing and hearty, Christmas in Connecticut presents a wonderfully cheerful love story with many slapstick elements.

When a war hero Jefferson Jones comes back home and wants to spend the Holidays in a nice, homely atmosphere, fate sends him to the doorstep of a well-known food critic Elisabeth Lane. Unfortunately for her, she has lied for a long time to her readers about having a loving family and a house in the countryside.And now is the time for a perfect set-up. With the help of a few friends she arranges a drastically improvised make-believe ceremony.

As one can imagine, from the beginning nothing seems to go as planned and after a few laughable moments everything goes amusingly berserk. Love takes over, and Elisabeth - despite having a still unwed, fake husband - falls in love with her handsome guest. The whole mystification goes out of control and the Christmas in ruined for the amusement of some, and for the disgust of others.

With an enchanting feel and many hilarious sequences, Christmas in Connecticut is a screwball comedy that will definitely appeal to most viewers, more so during the annual family gatherings.
  • patryk-czekaj
  • 8 नव॰ 2012
  • परमालिंक
9/10

A Yuletide Man's Favorite Sport

It finally hit me watching my VHS of Christmas in Connecticut what other film this one reminded me of. If it weren't for the fact that the other was done 20 years later, I'd say it was a remake.

Just as Rock Hudson was a phony fishing expert for Abercrombie&Fitch who had to get some on the job training at a fishing tournament, Barbara Stanwyck plays an forties version of Martha Stewart.

Stanwyck's a cooking columnist who's built up this whole image of living on a small Connecticut farm with husband and baby cooking all these marvelous delicacies. Trouble is she's unmarried, childless, writes her column from her apartment in New York and doesn't know how to boil water. But her writing is a hit with the public.

Trouble comes when she's hijacked into cooking a home Christmas dinner for a war hero sailor played by Dennis Morgan who gets to sing a couple of songs as well. Got to keep up the image at any cost. And her publisher Sidney Greenstreet likes the idea so well that he invites himself to the dinner.

So with borrowed farm, baby, and Reginald Gardiner who'd like to make it real with Stanwyck she tries to brazen it through.

Christmas in Connecticut's now a Yuletide classic and deservedly so. The leads are warm and human and they get great support from the assembled players. S.Z. Sakall as the Hungarian restaurant owner/friend of Stanwyck from whom she gets her cooking information and Una O'Connor as the housekeeper have a nice chemistry between them. Reginald Gardiner and Stanwyck have no chemistry at all, obvious to all but Reggie and he's funny in his stuffed shirt way.

Most people remember this film as one of Sidney Greenstreet's few ventures into comedy. If he's not an outright villain, a cynical observer of life or a tyrannical tycoon, Greenstreet is few other things on screen. Christmas in Connecticut gave him a rare opportunity to burlesque his own image and he made the most of it.

In a biography of Barbara Stanwyck, she mentions she enjoyed making Christmas in Connecticut as a welcome change from some villainous parts like Double Indemnity she'd been doing recently. One of the things that made doing the film so enjoyable was that between takes, director Peter Godfrey and Greenstreet would do some impromptu entertaining of cast and crew with English Music Hall numbers. Made for a relaxed and warm set and the cast responded accordingly.

Now if only someone had been filming those numbers.
  • bkoganbing
  • 5 दिस॰ 2006
  • परमालिंक
6/10

My Mother's Favorite Holiday Movie

My mother loved Barbara Stanwyck; in fact it was the only reason we watched "The Big Valley". But while "The Big Valley" was pure crap, "Christmas in Connecticut" is a heartwarming, fun little movie that I watched with my mother every year in the 80's and early 90's. Now it's difficult to find anywhere. I wonder why?

The gorgeous Miss Stanwyck was as good as usual, and all the other players are great. It ranks right up there with "White Christmas" as a true holiday classic. They should bring it back where it belongs.
  • Shelly_Servo3000
  • 17 अग॰ 2002
  • परमालिंक
5/10

Not Enough To Be A Christmas Classic

"What a Christmas" is the closing line of this movie, coming from the lips of Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet) - a magazine publisher who's just experienced what probably would indeed have been his most confusing Christmas ever. Unfortunately, the last line just didn't quite capture my feelings about the movie.

It's not that this is a bad movie. Quite the contrary - it's a very pleasant seasonal film, but that may be its biggest problem. It's up against some pretty stiff competition in terms of Christmas films, and there was nothing in particular about this that would make me want to watch it again and again. We have certain holiday traditions in our home, some of which do revolve around watching certain movies. "A Christmas Carol," "Miracle On 34th Street," "It's A Wonderful Life." They're all annual events. Even a more recent piece of comedy such as "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" shows up in our house every year. "Christmas In Connecticut" was fun to watch once, but I can't see doing it every year.

The story had the potential to be funnier than it turned out to be. Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) is a magazine columnist, who offers cooking and homemaking tips from the perspective of her life as a wife and mother on a Connecticut farm. The problem is that she has no kids, she isn't married and she lives in an apartment in the city. Everything about her column is a lie, but her boss Yardley doesn't know that, and he arranges to have a sailor who spent 18 days in a life raft after his boat was shot out from under him (Jeff Jones, played by Dennis Morgan) spend Christmas with Lane and her "family" so that he can experience a real family Christmas. How to pull this off without Yardley figuring out the truth becomes the plot.

It's mildly funny, and Stanwyck and Morgan had a great chemistry. I also enjoyed the performances from S.Z. Sakall as Felix and Una O'Connor as Nora, and spent at least part of the movie wondering if those two would hook up. There's nothing really wrong with this, except possibly to note that at the very beginning of the film Jones and his buddy look awfully healthy for two guys who had been stuck in a life raft all that time! As I said, it just doesn't match up well to the classic Christmas competition.
  • sddavis63
  • 4 जन॰ 2008
  • परमालिंक

Lightweight But Pleasant Holiday Feature

This lightweight but pleasant holiday feature makes the most out of a pretty slim premise, thanks to a solid cast and some resourceful writing. Not meant to be taken very seriously, it provides easygoing entertainment with some simple but upbeat themes.

Barbara Stanwyck was an interesting choice as the lead, and she makes it work well enough. The premise of Stanwyck's writer character trying to fool everyone and maintain her image is more suited to screwball comedy than to a holiday feature, but the tone is kept light and funny while having just enough of the holiday atmosphere to be believable. The supporting cast helps out, with the likes of "Cuddles" Sakall and Sydney Greenstreet getting some good moments.

This kind of light but worthwhile feature is not as easy as it looks - as witness the string of crass, barely watchable holiday features of recent years. While hardly anything deep or brilliant, "Christmas in Connecticut" holds up well enough to be among the more enjoyable movies of its kind.
  • Snow Leopard
  • 29 नव॰ 2004
  • परमालिंक
6/10

Stanwyck generates a little bit of fun

Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) is a single NYC food writer who is famous for her articles about her fictional Connecticut farm and family. She doesn't know how to cook. Her friend chef Felix Bassenak (S.Z. Sakall) gives her the recipes. The publisher Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet) insists that Elizabeth host a Christmas dinner for returning war hero Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan). Her editor Dudley Beecham (Robert Shayne) fears being exposed. In desperation, Elizabeth reluctantly agrees to a loveless marriage to the insistent John Sloan (Reginald Gardiner) and somehow get a baby before the dinner.

The story is rather boring until Stanwyck starts faking in Connecticut. The war hero isn't very compelling. Dennis Morgan is not that special as a leading man. It takes awhile for the movie to set up the premise and there are no good jokes in that section. The loveless marriage is kinda sad. The movie finally gets to Connecticut after 30 minutes and it takes awhile for the comedy to pick up. Stanwyck has some fun as she fakes a modern-day Martha Stewart starting with changing the baby.
  • SnoopyStyle
  • 20 दिस॰ 2014
  • परमालिंक
10/10

Ultimate Christmas movie

I first saw this film about 15 years ago, and I have been enchanted by it ever since. It is such a feel-good experience, that I could happily watch it at any time of the year. However, to me, it is the ultimate Christmas movie.

The fact that it is in B&W is irrelevant - although I often wonder what it would be like in colour. You can just get that warm, glowing feeling watching the Christmas events unfold.

Stanwyck and Morgan are perfect together, and Greenstreet is the antithesis of his usual character, Sakall is a blustering joy to watch.

It is light relief and certainly does not tax the brain, but leaves you feeling glad that you saw it.

I can't wait for it to become available on DVD in the UK. I shall certainly be at the front of the queue to buy it.
  • lindaog
  • 29 नव॰ 2004
  • परमालिंक
6/10

Good morning; Merry Christmas. I hope I'm in time to see you flip the flapjacks.

Christmas in Connecticut (AKA Indiscreet) is out of Warner Brothers and directed by Peter Godfrey. It stars Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet & Reginald Gardiner.

Plot sees Stanwyck as Elizabeth Lane, a successful writer of a love, marriage and food column for popular Smart Housekeeping magazine. As far as her readership is aware, Elizabeth lives in domestic bliss out in the country, tending the family home for her husband whilst raising their bonnie baby. The truth, however, is that she doesn't do any of those things, in fact she's hopeless and lives on her own in a modest Manhattan apartment. A problem now since her boss, who is none the wiser, has invited himself and a war hero fan of Elisabeth's writing, to her "Connecticut" farm for Christmas. Roping in some friends she hatches a plan to not get found out, but it's not going to be easy to pull off, no sir, not easy at all.

Frothy and breezy slice of screwball that does a good enough job at yuletide without really breaking out of its routine chains. Stanwyck is excellent (in a role first offered to Bette Davis), managing to keep the audience on Elizabeth's side in spite of her less than stellar scruples. There's a number of enjoyable set pieces, and enough knock about energy to raise a few laughs. While the makers have nicely played around with the myth of a domestic goddess and the expectation of such from male suitors. The trouble with the film, mainly, is that the direction is not creative enough for the complexities of the story, the deceptions at its core soon become boorish due to overkill. Sure it's lively, but running thru a number of set ups at pace is not enough if the staid dialogue and predictability of it all hangs heavy. One can imagine just what Howard Hawks could have done with this set up. Still, it's a safe recommendation at Christmas time, and certainly a must see for fans of the versatile Stanwyck. But once the end credits have rolled it ultimately feels like a Christmas tree without the trimmings. 6/10
  • hitchcockthelegend
  • 28 दिस॰ 2010
  • परमालिंक
8/10

A Nice Seasonal Comedy, and Sidney Greenstreet finally gets a good comic role

  • theowinthrop
  • 10 दिस॰ 2005
  • परमालिंक
6/10

Not One Of My Favorites

This movie has inexplicably become a Christmastime favorite but I don't get it. Full of preposterous turns of events, poor acting likely due to direction since it involves such otherwise great actors, boring scenes, an overly long story line that never seems to end and the miscasting of Barbara Stanwyck as a romantic lead (sorry, I don't see her in that role and in fact this movie shoots her face in ways that makes her look the least attractive I've ever seen her in a movie), this movie disappoints. (Stanwyck has ugly looks on her face, in fact, in the sleigh ride scene and I wonder why these were not re- shot.) The one saving grace in this movie is S.Z. Sakall; this movie showed off his talents well. But others did not fare so well, in my humble opinion. For example - Sydney Greenstreet's final lines (delivered with an unnecessarily extreme camera close-up) were not delivered well nor was his facial expression flattering. I would have re-shot those moments or - better yet - given the film a better ending. It was kind of lame. The love story, in the final analysis, in all its twists and turns, does not ring true. Not believable. I must be wrong though - since Robert Osborne, the noted film historian, thinks this is a great film. My bad. But, personally speaking, this is one movie I could not stand to see ever again. I found it excruciatingly dull and improbable.
  • iamyuno2
  • 27 दिस॰ 2013
  • परमालिंक
8/10

A SPARKLING Christmas CLASSIC!

This film is one of my favorite Christmas classics. Sure, it's fluff, it's not "relevant", but when did movies being simply entertaining and fun become a bad thing? No, this movie is definitely "A Good Thing" as Martha Stewart(appropriately)would say! Barbara Stanwyck is so appealing in this film and Dennis Morgan perfectly compliments her. Both of them have charm and warmth to spare. They are assisted by a crew of those incredible character actors who seem to have disappeared since the 40's and 50's--Sydney Greenstreet, S.Z.(Cuddles)Sakall, Reginald Gardiner and Una O'Connor among them. Where are characters like this today? Not one role could have been better cast. Bette Davis thankfully refused this role as beneath her and she was right to refuse it. She would have attempted to steam roll over everyone and everything around her and completely destroyed the film. Stanwyck was a strong actress, but had the wisdom to play this lightly. She has seldom been more appealing and is pitch perfect. Morgan is the essence of the nice guy. Because his part is the least splashy there is a tendency to overlook his skill. Just the fact that he could hold his own surrounded by such distinct character actors is an accomplishment in itself, but he too is absolutely perfect as Jefferson Jones. Skip the ill advised(and pointless)1992 remake and watch this bright, sparkling holiday gift!
  • kga58
  • 16 नव॰ 2005
  • परमालिंक
7/10

Fine actors, contrived story

  • vincentlynch-moonoi
  • 24 दिस॰ 2013
  • परमालिंक
10/10

Heartwarming comedy delightful change of pace for Stanwyck

  • mlraymond
  • 19 दिस॰ 2007
  • परमालिंक
6/10

Not A Great Christmas Film But Quite Watchable Due To The Assembled Cast

  • AudioFileZ
  • 4 नव॰ 2016
  • परमालिंक
5/10

Just Use the Old Magoo

"Christmas in Connecticut" isn't exactly the best Christmas movie (Seriously, how many Christmas movies are really *that* good? Even "It's a Wonderful Life" is pretty schmaltzy and manipulative when you think about it), but it does the trick. It's cute and gets a little bit more enjoyable every year I see it. The Christmas angle seems kind of thrown in--almost as if someone at Warner Bros. said, "Hey, we can get this thing released in December rather than January if we just rewrite a little of it and set it at Christmas."

Anyway, don't pass up "It's a Wonderful Life" or "A Christmas Story" for this one, but I'd recommend it just the same.

Remember: The Magoo will get you in, and the Magoo will get you back out.
  • dcshanno
  • 25 दिस॰ 2001
  • परमालिंक

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