![]() Sakall, who plays Uncle Felix, was Hungarian and serves several Hungarian-inspired dishes in this film (he adds paprika to the stew, makes goulash, etc.). On the very next flip, the ceiling is clean. ![]() She throws one that sticks on the ceiling and leaves gooey batter when it falls. Anne Colby / Contributed photo Show More Show LessĪmong the goofs is a scene where Elizabeth is practicing flipping flapjacks in the kitchen with Uncle Felix, who tries to help her hide the fact she can’t cook. She can’t cook, doesn’t live on a farm and has no domestic skills. In the film, Elizabeth Lane writes “Diary of a Housewife,” but it’s a sham. It’s believed the character of Elizabeth Lane, from 1945’s “Christmas in Connecticut,” was loosely based on the then popular columnist. The author (1899-1980) wrote nearly 60 books, as well as “Diary of Domesticity,” a Ladies’ Home Journal column that ran from 1937 through most of the 1940s. This 1700s house, still in her family, remains much as it was when she left it. The backyard of Stillmeadow Farm in Southbury, where beloved author Gladys Taber lived, is seen here. Melinda Elliott / Contributed photo Show More Show Less 8 of14 She can't cook, doesn’t live on a farm and has no domestic skills. In the film, Elizabeth Lane authors “Diary of a Housewife,” but it’s a sham. It’s believed the character of Elizabeth Lane, from the 1945 film, “Christmas in Connecticut,” was loosely based on the then popular columnist. Taber (1899-1980) wrote nearly 60 books as well as “Diary of Domesticity,” a column which started its Ladies’ Home Journal run in 1937 and ran through most of the 1940s. The kitchen remains the heartbeat of the 1700s house, which is still in her family. ![]() Gladys Taber, a beloved writer, created recipes in the kitchen of her Stillmeadow Farm home in Southbury, seen here. ![]() In the classic movie, Lane’s column is called “Diary of a Housewife.” Anne Colby / Contributed photo Show More Show Less Taber’s column, “Diary of Domesticity,” started its Ladies’ Home Journal run in 1937 and ran through most of the 1940s. Gladys Taber, who wrote nearly 60 books and was a beloved columnist for magazines such as Ladies’ Home Journal, appears in a publicity photo at her Stillmeadow Farm home in Southbury. “It is sort of an Elizabeth Lane photo.” (Elizabeth Lane is the character at the heart of “Christmas in Connecticut.”) Courtesy of Susan Turnley and family of Gladys Taber / Contributed photo Show More Show Less 5 of14 “It was given to me by her family, who told me it was taken by a family member long ago,” Turnley said. Turnley, editor of FOGT (Friends of Gladys Taber) Quarterly Journal. Gladys Taber, cooking in her kitchen at Stillmeadow Farm in Southbury, is seen in a photo which hangs in the office of Susan J. Taber, who lived at Stillmeadow Farm in Southbury, wrote nearly 60 books, as well as a column in the 1930s and 1940s called “Diary of Domesticity.” Elizabeth Lane’s column is “Diary of a Housewife.” Getty Images / Contributed photo Show More Show Less LMPC via Getty Images / Contributed photo Show More Show Less 2 of14Ī runaway horse-drawn sleigh allows magazine food writer Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) and war hero Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan) a chance to escape for some alone time in 1945’s “Christmas in Connecticut.” (But then the police catch up, shown here.) It’s believed the character of Elizabeth Lane was loosely based on author Gladys Taber, a popular columnist at the time for magazines such as Ladies’ Home Journal. The romantic comedy follows what happens when she pretends to be what she isn’t, and falls in love with one of her fans, war hero Jefferson Jones, played by Morgan. She can’t cook and doesn’t live on a farm. Taber, who lived at Stillmeadow Farm in Southbury, wrote nearly 60 books and a column in the 1930s and 1940s called “Diary of Domesticity.” Elizabeth Lane’s column is “Diary of a Housewife,” but it’s a sham. ![]() Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan are seen in a poster for 1945’s “Christmas in Connecticut.” It’s believed Stanwyck’s character, Elizabeth Lane, was loosely based on Gladys Taber, a popular columnist at the time for magazines such as Ladies’ Home Journal. ![]()
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