festive cheer: a Christmas movie from Hollywood’s screwball era

this one’s a great accompaniment for a present-wrapping session

City gal and magazine writer Barbara Stanwyck pretends to be a country girl and the domestic goddess her readers believe she is in 1945’s Christmas in Connecticut. It’s all for the benefit of Dennis Morgan, a delicious war-hero fan of hers with whom she will of course fall madly in love. It’s all very fluffy and silly and perfectly wonderful. (Read my 1…