Christmas in Connecticut

War hero Dennis Morgan becomes the object of a publicity stunt staged by magazine publisher Sidney Greenstreet. The corpulent print mogul announces that Morgan has won a Christmas dinner, to be prepared by the magazine’s housekeeping expert Barbara Stanwyck in her own Connecticut home. The catch: Not only does Stanwyck not have a home in Connecticut, but she’s never been in a kitchen in her life! She also doesn’t have a husband (as her articles claim), so Stanwyck’s erstwhile beau Reginald Gardiner is pressed into service as the hubby. As for the cooking, that will be handled by master chef S. Z. “Cuddles” Sakall. This solves everything, right? No way, Jose. Long dismissed as a lesser film farce, Christmas in Connecticut has its own irresistible charm, and has in recent years become a perennial Christmas TV attraction., The columnist for a national housekeeping magazine, as part of a promotional stunt, welcomes a returning war hero into her country estate, the only problem is she’s a klutz in the kitchen, where she’s never been at home on the range., A magazine editor who specializes in articles on domestic matters can’t even boil water but is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero in Christmas in Connecticut (1945) starring Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan., Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country’s most famous food writers. She describes herself as a hard-working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can’t even boil an egg.