Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan in Christmas In Connecticut (Image: LMPC via Getty Images) I grew up on a steady stream of ’80s and ’90s...
Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan in Christmas In Connecticut it would be if men had to parent their own kids. So you can imagine my surprise when I flipped on TCM a few years ago and discovered a romantic comedy from the 1940s that featured its dreamy male lead bathing a baby with the confidence of a well-practiced babysitter. There’s humor at play—he’s taking over for a woman who’s merely pretending to be a mother and the whole sequence has the high stakes of a false-identity farce.
And while poor Liz struggles with even the most basic aspects of domesticity, it’s Jefferson who knows how to test the baby’s bathwater with his elbow; Felix who can showily flip homemade flapjacks; and Elizabeth’s persnickety fiancé/fake husband John Sloan who loves design and décor in a way she doesn’t.
Godfrey pointedly illuminates the social hypocrisies that swirl like snowflakes. Yardley doesn’t bat an eye when Elizabeth’s perfect Connecticut home comes complete with a housekeeper—a nod toward how often the upper middle class women who flaunt the notion of “having it all” are secretly aided by domestic help.
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