Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

 Production Company:Warner Bros

Directed : Pete Godfrey

Starring : Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet

Plot : Journalist Elizabeth Lane (played by Barbara Stanwyck)is one of the country's most famous food writers. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The recipes come from her good friend. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his Christmas on *her* farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the truth comes out, but what can she do?.

Trivia : *This was one of the first films to benefit from the post-war euphoria that gripped America in 1945. Despite being released in August (rather than a more logical holiday-time release) this grossed a then impressive $3 million, making it one of the year's most successful movies.

*In 1945, studio head Jack L. Warner went on a cost-cutting kick, hoping to cut down on extravagant production expenditures during war-time. As an example, the mink coat Barbara Stanwyck is seen buying herself as a reward near the beginning of this film is the same coat Joan Crawford wore throughout another 1945 Warner hit, Mildred Pierce (1945).

*The character of Elizabeth Lane was loosely based on the then popular Family Circle Magazine columnist Gladys Taber, who lived on Stillmeadow Farm in Connecticut.