Holiday Classics: “Remember the Night” (1940)

Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck made film history when they teamed up in one of Hollywood’s greatest noir films, 1944’s “Double Indemnity”. But they actually first costarred together four years previously in the holiday romance “Remember the Night”. Stanwyck plays Lee Leander, a shoplifter arrested for trying to steal a bracelet from a New York […]

Holiday Classics: “Christmas in Connecticut” (1945)

“Christmas in Connecticut” is my personal favorite holiday movie. It’s chock full of delightful actors, hilarious situations, and is set in the most Christmas-y little town you could ever imagine—even if in reality it was just a set on the Warner Brothers lot. The story revolves around Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck), a food columnist for […]