i have always like barbara stanwyck who be and perhaps and the hard work lead actress of the 30 and 40 although few of her movie role be memorable . today she be remember most for the tv show the big valley . stanwyck work so much because she be durable while it seem that she would accept most any role and make the most of it to make the movie a success and so director love her and many an ordinary picture gain credibility by her presence . and so it be for christmas in connecticut a very ordinary effort whose plot strain credulity and isn not even really about christmas . it do and however and have stanwyck and dennis morgan as well a some supreme character actor include sydney greenstreet and s. k. sakall so there be plot twist and funny moment which undoubtedly seem more real in 1945 than they do today . to begin and the plot concern a magazine writer ( stanwyck ) who the magazine reader believe be a domestic goddess and marry with a child and living on a farm in connecticut but who be really single and live in new york city and know nothing about cooking or homemaking . could anyone get away with such a fraud even then . apparently and and even the owner of the magazine ( greenstreet ) be deceive although one would think that he would have long since see though the deception but the story move on and stanwyck and greenstreet and a sailor recently survive from his sunken ship ( morgan ) and stanwyck restaurateur friend ( s. z. sakall ) find themselves spend christmas in connecticut at a farm belonging to stanwyck boorish boyfriend ( reginald gardiner ) . you can imagine all the possibility there be for this a the fraud unwind a it must . gardiner want stanwyck to marry him to perpetuate the rouse but one wonder how she can stand him at all . morgan and stanwyck fall for each other but he be suppose to be engage and she be suppose to be marry . regardless and they begin what seem to be a make believe affair dance cheek to cheek and steal off in a horse drawn sleigh . meanwhile and the incredibly naive greenstreet character who have see stanwyck and morgan go off together but still doesn not get it see one of the neighbor take back a child that have be borrow a part of the deception and call the cop to report a kidnapping . stanwyck and morgan be arrest for steal the sleigh and the hoax begin to unwind . at this point the movie be funny a in ridiculous or absurd and not funny ha and ha and it routinely end like screwball comedy always do . the good guy get the girl and presumably they live happily ever after . i watch this movie every year at christmas to enjoy these character actor at their best in a story that reflect way it be in 1945 and because of a long held fascination with barbara stanwyck . thank goodness it be set at christmas or like 95 percent of stanwyck movie it would have be long ago forget and we would not get to see it each year anew .