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Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Christmas in Connecticut poster
Directed by
Peter Godfrey
Genre
romantic comedy, romance film, Christmas film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 174 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A magazine writer in the city pretends her life is perfect rural domesticity. When she must host a war hero for Christmas, schemes and romance collide.

lightheartedwhimsicalromanticcozycharmingplayfulcheerful

What happens

Christmas in Connecticut is a 1945 American Christmas romantic comedy film directed by Peter Godfrey and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, and Sydney Greenstreet, with Reginald Gardiner, S. Z. Sakall, and Robert Shayne in supporting roles. It follows about an unmarried city magazine writer who pretends to be a farm wife and mother for the sake of her popular lifestyle column, and falls in love with a returning war hero while hosting him for a Christmas holiday. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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