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Synopsis
SHE - wanted to settle down and leave her hotel by the front door, instead of sneaking down a fire escape!
A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
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16 Oct 1941
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USA
USA
16 Oct 1941
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Theatrical
New York City, New York
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"My publishing contract doesn’t call for lessons in lovemaking!"
Silliness abounds as bookie Robert Young convinces perennial bettor (and starving academic) Felix Bressart to pay off a debt by giving him a manuscript to sell, which turns out to be a bestselling marriage manual; the only catch is that for Young to pose as the brilliant author, he has to do so in the guise of an unmarried man, which doesn't go over too well with wife Ruth Hussey. It's hit-and-miss as a comedy, so here are the intermittent amusements: fellow bookie Sam Levene sweatin' with slang-happy gangster Sheldon Leonard in a Turkish bathhouse; publisher Lee Bowman has never ever been alone with a woman and presumably has never heard…
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I’ve seen this at least a couple of times, but this time it struck me that Lee Bowman’s character is sweet and he gets jerked around in an unfair way. Many films of the period would have a woman making her husband/ex-husband/boyfriend jealous by playing up to another man. To make it palatable, the other man is usually a sleazebag, a liar, a womanizer, or a sexless dork. Lee Bowman was a little awkward, but much too nice to be treated this way.
I love Ruth Hussey though, and if her character had any taste she’d have ended up with Felix Bressart.
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Objectively I know this wasn't that great, and I honestly could not pay attention for the first 20-30 minutes. But old hollywood romantic comedies have this effect on me that as long as the conceit has a lot of shenanigans (the more unrealistic the better!) I'll eat it up.
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"He gave me a look that hadn't been washed in years."
It's an improbable plot but a likable cast. There were some good lines here and there and the pace moved along nicely. The scene with Robert Young translating Sheldon Leonard's slang for Felix Bressart was great! I'd love to look at a script to see the actual words. I think I would need a translator, too!
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A half-baked story kind of slows down a good cast trying to make a breezy comedy, but I still enjoy spending time with Ruth Hussey, Robert Young, Felix Bressart, Sheldon Leonard and the rest.
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Robert Young and Ruth Hussey are great, per usual.
But it's Felix Bressart who stole the film (and my heart) in this one. He's so sweet and funny. The scene where Sheldon Leonard is using slang and Felix Bressart is so confused (with Young eventually translating between the two). Great fun
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No matter how much charm, Robert Young couldn't save this one. That's the result of poor writing. I'm sure it could have been something with a few adjustments, but where they ended-up, there was no way anyone was coming out looking favorable.
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I can’t speak for Rich Man, Poor Girl, Northwest Passage, or H.M. Pulham, Esq., but Robert Young and Ruth Hussey have no chemistry in this film. They’re hardly a couple worth rooting for, so I felt bad for Lee Bowman’s character. He didn’t deserve all that.
And I don’t care what they always say, Robert Young is not attractive or magnetic. Sue me, MGM.
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another romantic triangle movie with lots of American slang of the period thrown in for good measure
