Dir.: Peter Godfrey
Plot: A single, city-dwelling journalist is forced to fake the rural domestic bliss she writes about in her lucrative column when her editor and a war veteran invite themselves to her home for Christmas.
Christmas in Connecticut has an excellent premise. Babs Stanwyck plays a Elizabeth Lane, a newspaper columnist famous for her slice-of-life features focussed around her beautiful home, delicious home-cooked food and charming husband and baby. In reality, however, she is a single city gal who lounges around her bohemian apartment whilst her obliging Hungarian neighbour (S.Z Sakall, of whom more later) dreams up the recipes which win her such renown. When a recovering war hero (Dennis Morgan) appeals to the newspaper's editor (Sidmey Greenstreet) for a perfect Christmas holiday with Elizabeth and her family in their country house, things threaten to go off the boil. Enlisting a besotted neighbour (Reginald Gardiner) for help, she sets about creating the grand illusion her columns have painted, but things turn awkward when she starts to fall for the handsome veteran.
