Christmas in Connecticut has been my number one favorite Christmas movie ever since I first saw it as a kid. It's that picture perfect Christmas post card from wartime Hollywood that plays into everyone's fantasy about leaving the city for life on a Connecticut farm. Barbara Stanwyck stars as an independent 1940s woman who writes a cooking column for Smart Housekeeping Magazine. Her stodgy and demanding boss invites himself to her Connecticut farm when she agrees to play host to a sailor who just came home from the war. See the movie to find out what havoc ensues.There's a good cast all around, especially Dennis Morgan as the sailor and Sidney Greenstreet as the stuffy magazine executive who just sees Christmas as a business opportunity until all the screwball comedy loose ends get tied together on Christmas Day. S.Z. Sakall and Una O'Connor have big comic supporting roles as well. This movie is a gem from that bygone era of Hollywood before they became what they are today. After you see it once, you'll want to revisit it every year.

No need to wait until Christmas to watch this laugh a minute film. In this film a War Hero is invited to a life style magazine writer who is a Martha Stewart before there was a Martha Stewart. She makes all her meals look like fine dinning. Her articles talk about her private life which includes her marriage and her child. The problem is that she is lying. She is not married and can't cook. When her boss demands that she take in the war hero she is up the creek. Other problems include that she doesn't have a child. It is a very funny film that you should see! This is the film that many situation comedy show have stolen from.

Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) is a single NYC food writer who is famous for her articles about her fictional Connecticut farm and family. She doesn't know how to cook. Her friend chef Felix Bassenak (S.Z. Sakall) gives her the recipes. The publisher Alexander Yardley (Sydney Greenstreet) insists that Elizabeth host a Christmas dinner for returning war hero Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan). Her editor Dudley Beecham (Robert Shayne) fears being exposed. In desperation, Elizabeth reluctantly agrees to a loveless marriage to the insistent John Sloan (Reginald Gardiner) and somehow get a baby before the dinner.The story is rather boring until Stanwyck starts faking in Connecticut. The war hero isn't very compelling. Dennis Morgan is not that special as a leading man. It takes awhile for the movie to set up the premise and there are no good jokes in that section. The loveless marriage is kinda sad. The movie finally gets to Connecticut after 30 minutes and it takes awhile for the comedy to pick up. Stanwyck has some fun as she fakes a modern-day Martha Stewart starting with changing the baby.

Barbara Stanwyck is a magazine writer of articles on being the perfect homemaker. She's the Martha Stewart of her day. Unfortunately, she's also a huge fraud. She can't cook and doesn't even have the family she writes about! When she's put in the position of having to make a big Christmas dinner for her publisher (the always excellent Sydney Greenstreet) and a war veteran (Dennis Morgan), she scrambles to keep up the ruse of her "happy homemaker" image.Funny Christmas romantic comedy helped by a superb cast. Stanwyck and Greenstreet are terrific, as usual. Dennis Morgan is very good as the poor soldier who hasn't been allowed to eat solid foods and is salivating at the thought of a big Christmas dinner. A great supporting cast including S.Z. Sakall, Robert Shayne, Una O'Connor, Reginald Gardiner, and the adorable Joyce Compton. This is definitely a must-see Christmas classic for everybody.