Christmas in Connecticut

Christmas in Connecticut
a theatrical release poster
Directed byPeter Godfrey
Screenplay byLionel Houser
Adele Comandini
Story byAileen Hamilton
Produced byWilliam Jacobs
StarringBarbara Stanwyck
Dennis Morgan
Sydney Greenstreet
CinematographyCarl E. Guthrie
Edited byFrank Magee
Music byFrederick Hollander
"The Wish That I Wish Tonight" (song), music and lyrics by Jack Scholl and M. K. Jerome[1]
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release dates
  • July 27, 1945 (1945-07-27) (NYC)
  • August 11, 1945 (1945-08-11) (US)
  • [1] ([1])
Running time
101 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$864,000[2]
Box office$3 million[3] or $4,132,000[2]

Christmas in Connecticut is a 1945 American Christmas romantic comedy film about an unmarried city magazine writer who pretends to be a farm wife and mother and then falls in love with a returning war hero. The film was directed by English director Peter Godfrey and stars Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan and Sydney Greenstreet.[4]

  1. ^ a b c Christmas in Connecticut at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p. 25 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  3. ^ Schatz, Thomas (1999). Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s. University of California Press. p. 229.
  4. ^ "Christmas in Connecticut". Internet Movie Database. 11 August 1945. Retrieved 13 November 2011.