12 Days of Christmas Films | Day 5: Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Directed by Peter Godfrey, Christmas in Connecticut (1945) centers on Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck), a magazine writer whose articles about her daily life as a wife and mother living in a Connecticut farm are admired by housewives across the country. As a publicity stunt for the magazine, her boss, Alexander Yardley (Syndey Greenstreet), arranges for returning war hero Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan) to spend Christmas at the Lanes' farm, and invites himself along for the festivities. There is just one problem: unknown to Yardley, Elizabeth is a single woman living in New York, the recipes she uses for her column are given to her by local chef Felix Bassenak (S. Z. Sakall), and the farm she writes about belongs to her boyfriend, John Sloane (Reginald Gardiner). To save her job, Elizabeth accepts John's marriage proposal, even though she does not love him. Learning that John owns a Connecticut farm, Elizabeth's editor, Dudley Beecham (Robert Shayne) suggests that they...