Christmas in Connecticut
Added 11/8/2009
One of my favorite movies, love everything about it, just wish they would come up, with it in color.
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Christmas in Connecticut
Added 10/8/2009
Christmas in Connecticut is my all time favorite Christmas movie. It is set in the 40's, war time..and is hilarious and touching at the same time. It's a really sweet movie which our family watches every Christmastime! In fact, there are words and lines from the movie we use all year long!
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movies worth owning
Added 10/8/2009
One of the all time great Christmas movies. The stars and story line shine as confusion reigns during a holiday season filled with funny lines and even funnier antics. Everything is "hunky-dunky" and well worth rewatching every year.
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Watching This Has Become 'A Christmas Tradition'!
Added 2/28/2009
My oldest daughter and I first discovered this(1945) film several years ago on Turner Classic Movies (TCM),and it has become a 'Tradition' to view it every Christmas since. Of course I immediately ordered it from Amazon so I would have my own copy.
It is delightfully hilarious fun with a sweet romance and 'to die for' winter scenery, as well. Being in Black & White just adds to it's richness.
Highly recommended,and I believe that anyone who views it will also add Christmas In Connecticut to their list of 'must-watch' Christmas season movies.
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Far from a Christmas classic
Added 2/12/2009
If you really want to watch a Christmas classic, you could easily skip this and perhaps choose any other Christmas film. I was very disappointed by this movie after watching such classics as; It's a wonderful life, Scrooge, Miracle on 34th Street (starring Maureen O'Hara), White Christmas, Bishop's Wife, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Home Alone2, and even Apartment which was set in Christmas time. I was hoping to see the Yuletide spirit; Christmas wreaths decorating the walls of churches, homes, shops, buildings and streets. Christmas trees, singing Christmas carols in the background, women and children shopping for the holidays and the whole atmosphere of celebration is conspicuously absent, yet the movie carries the title Christmas in Connecticut. Director Peter Godfrey failed in his effort to make this a classic.
The story is about a Journalist named Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck), one of the country's famous food writers is known to her readers as a hard working married woman living on a farm with her children, and sharing her cooking skills with her readers. In real life she is a single unmarried woman living in an apartment in Manhattan who can't even boil an egg.. The recipe she was posting was from her uncle Felix (S.Z. Sakaal.) Magazine editor Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet) decides that Ms. Lane must invite the war hero Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan) to her country home in Connecticut for Christmas dinner. He thinks that would be a great marketing strategy for her career and his magazine since the Jones recently survived a plane crash and made a miraculous escape from the sea.
Fortunately for Ms. Lane things don't look bad since her long time friend, architect John Sloan (Reginald gardener) has a country home in Connecticut, and is very happy to marry her, and her uncle Felix is happy to cook the Christmas dinner. The neighbor's children who are left in the care of Sloan may be used as her own children. You will think that her problems are solved, but not so fast. First of all she is not in love with John Sloan, and number two her uncle Felix despises him. In spite of this they plan to marry and the marriage ceremony at his house is constantly interrupted by mishaps and miscommunications in the presence of her guests at the house. House keeper Norah (Una O'Connor) has her own mind about things at the house and does not make it any easier. It gets even more complicated when Elizabeth falls in love with Jefferson Jones. Finally they declare love for each other and her boss Yardley in a change of heart offers her even a better deal even though she lied to him about her personal life. Except for some good performances by Dennis Morgan and Una O'Connor, the movie does not shine as I expected.
1. It's a Wonderful Life (60th[[ASIN:B0000AQS5D Scrooge Anniversary Edition)]]
2. Scrooge
3. Scrooge
4. Miracle on 34th Street (Special Edition)
5. The Bishop's Wife
6. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Special Edition)
7. White Christmas
8. The Apartment
9. Home Alone
10. Home Alone 2 - Lost in New York
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Christmas in Connecticut
Added 11/8/2009
One of my favorite movies, love everything about it, just wish they would come up, with it in color.
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Christmas in Connecticut
Added 10/8/2009
Christmas in Connecticut is my all time favorite Christmas movie. It is set in the 40's, war time..and is hilarious and touching at the same time. It's a really sweet movie which our family watches every Christmastime! In fact, there are words and lines from the movie we use all year long!
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movies worth owning
Added 10/8/2009
One of the all time great Christmas movies. The stars and story line shine as confusion reigns during a holiday season filled with funny lines and even funnier antics. Everything is "hunky-dunky" and well worth rewatching every year.
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