it finally hit me watch my vhs of christmas in connecticut what other film this one remind me of . if it weren not for the fact that the other be do 20 year later and i would say it be a remake . just a rock hudson be a phony fishing expert for abercrombie and fitch who have to get some on the job training at a fishing tournament and barbara stanwyck play an forties version of martha stewart . stanwyck a cooking columnist who build up this whole image of live on a small connecticut farm with husband and baby cook all these marvelous delicacy . trouble be she unmarried and childless and write her column from her apartment in new york and doesn not know how to boil water . but her writing be a hit with the public . trouble come when she hijack into cook a home christmas dinner for a war hero sailor play by dennis morgan who get to sing a couple of song a well . get to keep up the image at any cost . and her publisher sidney greenstreet like the idea so well that he invite himself to the dinner . so with borrow farm and baby and and reginald gardiner who would like to make it real with stanwyck she try to brazen it through . christmas in connecticut now a yuletide classic and deservedly so . the lead be warm and human and they get great support from the assembled player . s. z. sakall a the hungarian restaurant owner or friend of stanwyck from whom she get her cook information and una oconnor a the housekeeper have a nice chemistry between them . reginald gardiner and stanwyck have no chemistry at all and obvious to all but reggie and he funny in his stuffed shirt way . most people remember this film a one of sidney greenstreet few venture into comedy . if he not an outright villain and a cynical observer of life or a tyrannical tycoon and greenstreet be few other thing on screen . christmas in connecticut give him a rare opportunity to burlesque his own image and he make the most of it . in a biography of barbara stanwyck and she mention she enjoy make christmas in connecticut a a welcome change from some villainous part like double indemnity she would be do recently . one of the thing that make do the film so enjoyable be that between take and director peter godfrey and greenstreet would do some impromptu entertaining of cast and crew with english music hall number . make for a relaxed and warm set and the cast respond accordingly . now if only someone have be film those number .