“The romancin's rosy and the fun's furious and everybody's going to be there! You're invited!”
Overview
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
Directed by Peter Godfrey
Written by Lionel Houser, Adele Comandini, Aileen Hamilton
Produced by William Jacobs
Box OfficeBudget: $864KRevenue: $3.0M
About Christmas in Connecticut
Christmas in Connecticut is a comedy, romance film released in 1945 exploring themes of nurse, holiday, infant, deception, connecticut, romance. Directed by Peter Godfrey, it stars Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet. While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.