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- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 41 m
- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 41 m
Summary A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
Directed By: Peter Godfrey
Written By: Lionel Houser, Adele Comandini, Aileen Hamilton
- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 41 m
- 1945
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 41 m
Christmas in Connecticut
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Summary A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
Directed By: Peter Godfrey
Written By: Lionel Houser, Adele Comandini, Aileen Hamilton
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
64
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
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0% Negative
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A thoroughly wacky 1945 screwball comedy that also doubles as a fascinatingly subversive commentary on conventional gender roles. It’s a bit of a hidden gem in the Christmas canon.
A successful lifestyle journalist, Elizabeth (Barbara Stanwyck) is lauded by her readers as the sweetest, most efficient homemaker in the countryside. Problem is, she is a chain-smoking urbanite in a city apartment. [05 Dec 2014, p.C2]
A sometimes hilarious farce and a holiday favorite.
This may be a dated film, one in which publishing companies were run by czars instead of corporations and a woman's worth was defined by mink coats and men. But it is also a smart, clever, funny film with a wonderful cast and some nice screwball touches by director PETER GODFREY. [23 Dec 2001, p.15]
Peter Godfrey paces the picture at a fast clip and the writing is laden with fun stuff.
Tinsel-thin seasonal folly (1945) about a newslady who has a GI hero over for Christmas dinner. Frolicsome in an artificially hearty sort of way, though it made its studio (Warners) a nice holiday bundle.
Peter Godfrey, the director, has a good deal to learn about the art of telling a boudoir joke in the parlor and getting away with it.
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