Christmas in Connecticut - actors, characters and roles
All actors and their roles in the film "Christmas in Connecticut"
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Timing:
1:42 (102 min)
6.989/10
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6.748/10
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7.3/10
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Actors and characters
Frank Jenks
Character Sinkewicz
Jody Gilbert
Character Mrs. Gerseg
George Boyce
Character Party Guest
Olaf Hytten
Character Elkins (uncredited)
Charles Sherlock
Character Bartender (uncredited)
Fred Kelsey
Character Harper (uncredited)
What's left behind the scenes
- The character of Barbara Stanwyck (who played Elizabeth Lane) was partially based on the writer Gladys Tabor (1899-1980), a columnist for Family Circle Magazine who lived in Connecticut.
- Shortly before working on this project, Barbara Stanwyck starred in Billy Wilder's thriller "Double Indemnity" (1944), where she played a seductress who persuades an insurance agent to kill her husband. Edith Head, who worked constantly for Paramount Pictures, was the costume designer there. Stanwyck liked how Head dressed her in Wilder's film so much that she insisted Warner Bros. hire Head to design the costumes for Stanwyck's character in this comedic melodrama by Peter Godfrey.
- In early 1944, Bette Davis was cast in the role of Elizabeth Lane, but she was replaced by Barbara Stanwyck in April of the same year.
- In 1945, Jack L. Warner (1892-1978), president of the film company, ordered a campaign to reduce exorbitant filming costs. That is why the mink coat purchased by Barbara Stanwyck's character is the same one worn by Joan Crawford's character in Michael Curtiz's crime drama "Mildred Pierce" (1945).
- S.Z. Sakall, who played Uncle Felix, was born in Budapest and had Hungarian roots. In the film, he serves some dishes of Hungarian cuisine. This was a classic case of art mirroring real life. Sakall detested "American food" and ate exclusively Hungarian or continental cuisine. During lunch breaks during filming, he ate food he brought with him, prepared by his wife that morning.
- The sledding scene was filmed in the studio pavilions, with soap shavings used instead of snow.
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