What movie did YOU just FINISH watching?
Dec 8, 2020 18:31:02 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Dec 8, 2020 18:31:02 GMT
Christmas in Connecticut 1945 directed by Peter Godfrey and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardner, S.Z. Sakall and Una O'Connor among others.
Light, frothy, old-fashioned rom-com made much better with these stars, since the story could have had a little more bite and sting, but it's still a cozy charmer were everyone is rather nice in the end. Maybe with another director.
I had never seen this movie so it was a new experience for me. Even with my reservations I enjoyed it a lot. Plus one seldom sees the lighter side of Stanwyck and Greenstreet.
Journalist Elizabeth Lane (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 Felix (Sakall). The owner (Greenstreet) of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor (Morgan) 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? With some luck and improvisation she might succeed...with the help of a very boring architect friend (Gardner) who just happens to own a farm on the countryside in Connecticut, complete with an Irish housekeeper (O'Connor).
Light, frothy, old-fashioned rom-com made much better with these stars, since the story could have had a little more bite and sting, but it's still a cozy charmer were everyone is rather nice in the end. Maybe with another director.
I had never seen this movie so it was a new experience for me. Even with my reservations I enjoyed it a lot. Plus one seldom sees the lighter side of Stanwyck and Greenstreet.
Journalist Elizabeth Lane (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 Felix (Sakall). The owner (Greenstreet) of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor (Morgan) 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? With some luck and improvisation she might succeed...with the help of a very boring architect friend (Gardner) who just happens to own a farm on the countryside in Connecticut, complete with an Irish housekeeper (O'Connor).