This past weekend L. and I watched this film called Christmas In Connecticut. From the way this started I could not tell where this movie was going and it did not go anywhere that I thought it would. It starts off with these two sailors stuck in the middle of the ocean on a life raft for almost three weeks. They get saved and one of them named Jefferson ends up becoming obsessed with wanting a really good meal made by this lady named Elizabeth Lane. She writes articles for a magazine where it's pretty much like what Martha Stewart does but not for real. So while Jefferson is in the hospital with his friend who gets to eat whatever he wants he's straight up drinking a bowl of milk with an egg yolk floating in it. Was this a real thing? Did people actually do this to one another back in the day?
So while he is obsessing over getting a actual good meal his nurse develops a crush on him and wants to marry him very quickly. His friend tells him he has to give her the old magoo which means to just lie and trick her to get what he wants. So Jefferson talks about not really having a stable place to stay so the nurse decides to write to the magazine that he's always reading about his story of being lost at sea and wanting a nice Christmas meal at a home. The guy who runs the magazine who is a monster named Alexander Yardley forces Elizabeth to take him in and give him a great Christmas experience. The problem is is that Elizabeth does not live on the farm, does not have a child, and is not married. She lives in an apartment building in the city and is very single and childless. So her agent comes over and they try to hatch up a plan and they also end up involving a guy that is in love with Elizabeth that she doesn't really seem into where he's going to pretend to be married and using one of the houses he's helped work on and they're going to borrow babies from these ladies who drop off their kids while they go off to work. And to handle the cooking she has her friend Felix who is awesome in this film cook all of the meals for them.
The real problems start when Jefferson shows up and Elizabeth is immediately in love with this man. She does not try to hide it whatsoever. The guy that she is pretending to be married to is named John and he wants to hurry up and rush the wedding and they invite this judge over to the house about four or five times to quickly marry them so that if the owner of the magazine does check he'll see that they're actually married so not really lying. They get a chubby, dark haired baby and Elizabeth says that it's a boy and it turns out to be a girl and then later in the film the baby gets switched out for a little blonde haired baby that got teeth thinking speaks. This movie ends with of course newfound love and betrayal at the hand of a nurse that fell in love with Jefferson.
Well it turns out he thinks he's engaged to her and he also thinks that Elizabeth is married and he can't mess with a married woman but then the nurse is like “Oh I fell in love and am now engaged to his friend that was on the life raft with him” and Elizabeth loses her mind at her editor because he is the most pushy man to ever exist in film and she lets him know that all of this was a huge lie which is upsets him. This movie was way funnier than I expected it to be but it turns out that a lot of old films have a lot of fast talking and go at a very quick pace and never feel like they are long films. I would totally suggest checking this one out because it's a good holiday film with a really good cast and a story that doesn't go exactly the way you expect it to. This movie had everything. Lies, potential scandal, egg milk, baby swapping, stolen kisses, wayward cows, and a couple of Black people.
Barbara Stanwyck as Elizabeth Lane
Dennis Morgan as Jefferson Jones
Sydney Greenstreet as Alexander Yardley
Reginald Gardiner as John Sloan
S.Z. Sakall as Felix Bassenak
Robert Shayne as Dudley Beecham
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