Remember the Night

Remember the Night is a Christmas film which debuted in 1940.  A young woman, played by Barbara Stanwyck, is arrested for shoplifting on Christmas Eve.  The district attorney assigned to her case, played by Fred McMurray, pushes to have her trail postponed until after the Christmas vacation.  In the meantime, the accused and the lawyer fall in love.  In a twist of fate, "love reformed her and corrupted him".  A series of events threaten to send the young couple to jail.

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Christmas in Connecticut

"As she types the words 'From my living room as I write, the good cedar logs crackling on the fire...' the view is of clothes flapping on the line outside her bachelorette Manhattan apartment." (http://www.quotes.net/movies/2129)

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Barbara Stanwyck is an early version of Martha Stewart in the movie Christmas in Connecticut which debuted in 1945.  She plays the role of Elizabeth Lane, a magazine columnist for Smart Housekeeping who writes a column about her life as a mother and homemaker on her Connecticut farm.  Her readers know her as "America's Best Cook".  One day, her boss, Mr. Yardley, invites a war hero to Elizabeth's Connecticut house for Christmas dinner, a fan who read all of her recipes when he was convalescing in the hospital.  Mr. Yardley, however, does not know that Mrs. Lane is a fraud:  she's not married, she has no children, she can't cook and she doesn't have a famous farm in Connecticut. "As she types the words 'From my living room as I write, the good cedar logs crackling on the fire...' the view is of clothes flapping on the line outside her bachelorette Manhattan apartment."  Knowing that her job will be on the line if Mr. Yardley finds out the truth, Elizabeth attempts to stage a scene of domestic bliss on Christmas Eve:  she hires a cook to make the meal and borrows a husband and a baby.  Things do not go as planned when the supposedly married Mrs. Lane falls in love with the war hero who has come to dinner.

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