Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Its a very funny Christmas movie that I saw just after Christmas.Barbara Stanwyck writes a column where she says she lives on a Farm with Husband and a child in Connecticut which is actually a concocted stuff.Her column gets really famous and Sydney Greenstreet her boss invites himself and a returning war hero Dennis Morgan to her home on Christmas.Reginald Gardiner who is courting her at that time has a farm in Connecticut.She and her editor Robert Shayne urges him to let them use his farmhouse,he agrees when Barbara agrees to marry him as soon as they reach the farmhouse.Una O'Connor the housekeeper looks after some working woman's child which they present to the guests as their own.S Z Sakall plays the Hungarian Chef who is Barbara's dear friend and whose recipes she pass on as her own in columns.He too goes with them as Sydney is very fond of recipes Barbara writes.The Chef sees to it that Barbara does not marry Reginald.He devises plans for interruptions in their marriage ceremony and meanwhile she fells in love with the war hero.Dick Elliot plays the Judge who is marrying them and is equally funny.

The movie is very well written its funny and romantic at times.That's a strange scene when Barbara asks Sydney Greenstreet to "Get Out" near the climax.Dennis Morgan is a sailor who is very fond of little newborns and is deft in bathing them changing nappies and looking after them.There's a nice romantic scene when Barbara and Dennis leave Christmas party and get onto somebody else's carriage and Horse carries them on where it wills.Cow scene is funny as Barbara has written how she dotes on her,cow comes and moos through the window and Barbara and Dennis go out taking care of the cow she letting him do everything as she has never cared for a cow.Babies too change in midst and perplexes Sydney also when mother comes and takes her baby away he thinks she is kidnapping,which results into hilarious events and unraveling of the facade.4/5