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The romancin's rosy and the fun's furious and everybody's going to be there! You're invited! - Christmas in Connecticut
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Title: Christmas in Connecticut

Release Date: 27 Jul 1945

Runtime: 1h 42m

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Director: Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures

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.

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Average Vote: 7 (157 votes)

Cast

  • Elizabeth Lane: Barbara Stanwyck
  • Jefferson Jones: Dennis Morgan
  • Alexander Yardley: Sydney Greenstreet
  • John Sloan: Reginald Gardiner
  • Felix Bassenak: S.Z. Sakall
  • Dudley Beecham: Robert Shayne
  • Norah: Una O'Connor
  • Sinkewicz: Frank Jenks
  • Nurse Mary Lee: Joyce Compton
  • Judge Crothers: Dick Elliott
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