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  Review by sakana1 ★½ 6

  This is genuinely, actively bad. The male characters are either frightfully bland with terrible, floating Irish accents (Franchot Tone) or uninteresting, vague gestures in the direction of 'cad' (Cary Grant). Meanwhile, Jean Harlow has literally nothing to do but sit around being faithful and giving long speeches. There's essentially no emotion in any of the relationships (or conversations), and it feels impossibly long; all three of the stars feel like they're somehow both being wasted and also at fault for this endless, monotone disaster.

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  Review by Bre ★★★½

  In looking at great cinematic teams, especially in Hollywood’s Golden Era, Jean Harlow and Franchot Tone are often overlooked but they made several films together and proved a really versatile pairing. Maybe it’s just my bias toward Franchot, but in many ways he is my favorite leading man of Harlow’s. In all of Harlow’s films, she is the smartest one in the room and her dynamic with Franchot reflects that. Perhaps maybe it’s just the way they wrote his characters, but I always get the feeling in these films that there is more respect for her specifically in the Tone-Harlow pairings than with some of her other leading men. She overpowers Tone in a way that does not emasculate him,…

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  Review by Neill Shaughness ★★★ 1

  God! It's impossible to dislike Cary Grant, even when he plays a shit.

  The melodrama overstays it's welcome a little bit, and it was ridiculous that Harlow is made to just sit by Grant and can't go get a doctor in the third act, but then it turns into a surprisingly watchable world war one aviation film.

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  Review by Gentry ★½

  “Blondes never go broke.”

  Melodies of 1914. Jean Harlow: pretty, great ankles, would make a charming widow. What is this accent Lord Franchot Tone is doing? It’s not my only issue with this flat, unfunny, and romantically cold Great War-set picture, but it’s certainly one of the most egregious.

  There’s no heat between Suzy (Harlow) and her two leading men, fast-talking flyboy Andrew (Grant) or Scottish inventor Terry (Tone), and the film moves at a snail’s pace towards a ridiculous finale involving the two living leads surely committing a felony in their clandestine disturbance of a dead body (for honor!).

  I don’t blame the players, because they’ve shown to have wonderful chemistry in many other pictures together (Tone and Harlow,…

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  Review by emily ★★★

  kinda pissed cary grant wasn't in like 50% of this

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  Review by Pippin ★★★★ 4

  Something happened while watching this movie that I did not expect to happen: I enjoyed Franchot Tone. I typically really do not enjoy watching him but he's pretty likable in Suzy. I wanted to see even more of him, which, if you know me, is a huge accomplishment. His accent is pretty terrible--I didn't realize he was supposed to be Irish until way too late into the movie. I would have even preferred more if he did no attempt at an Irish accent and everyone just accepted him as Irish.

  Suzy was a lot different than I was expecting in a great way. Jean Harlow shines as always and I'd recommend to anyone who wanted to see a great film of hers.

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  Review by 🥀 e m m é 🇵🇸 ★★★½ 2

  It’s a good sign when a film passes the Bechdel in its first scene. And I adored Harlow! Finally! Who knew that all it would take was seeing her have positive interactions with other women?!

  Suzy’s a character who does what she must to survive, and while Harlow gives us a real sense of her vulnerability, she’s also consistently hopeful, charming, and incredibly loving. No man deserves her, not even faux-Irish Franchot Tone or devilishly charming Cary Grant!

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  Review by loureviews ★★★½

  I L<3ve Musicals!

  A charming film - but oh boy, who told Franchot Tone to attempt an Irish accent? ('Top o' the marnin' indeed!).

  This MGM classic thrives on the star power of the incomparable Jean Harlow, a hugely talented comedy player, and a likeable performance from Cary Grant (who sort of sings in one scene, and who is meant to be French). Una O'Connor is always good value, and here she is again as Harlow's landlady.

  If you like old films, and you like the production values of MGM, you'll love this. Harlow might have appeared in better titles, but she's worth watching here, and despite the odd lapse into melodrama, this is lighthearted and entertaining fare all the way.

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  Review by Jillian Michelle ★★★★ 3

  So after Suzy slaps a man, she shouts "Period"? Yes, I love her.

  I loved this so much, I thought I knew where the ending was headed but I was happily wrong. Also, I felt zero chemistry between Andre and Suzy, but the chemistry between Suzy and Terry was overflowing? I'm pretty sure that's not what I was supposed to take away from this movie. I will say that I love Cary Grant, but I really don't enjoy watching most of his performances in the 30s. To be completely honest, I may even like Franchot Tone more than Cary Grant.......yes I know I'm probably the only person in the world who feels that way. I love Cary Grant but I've…

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★

  One of Jean Harlow’s last vehicles, but one of the weakest MGM offered her. She is the best thing about it, but she has so little to work with. It is a romantic triangle with two terrible guys and the convoluted script is a non starter (it is among the ones Dorothy Parker worked during her Hollywood period). If it waa in the hand of an enthusiastic vulgarian like Jack Conway maybe the excess would at least had some life to it, but dull George Fitzmaurice got the assignment.

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  Review by mattheweg ½ 2

  Franchot Tone absolutely murders the Irish accent here. Almost impossibly bad. How did no one take him aside after one take and say “Actually the writers have decided your character is American now.” He’s so bad at an Irish accent that he seems to realize it and give up on trying halfway through every sentence he says. 

  Speaking of giving up, Harlow seems totally unfazed throughout the movie despite multiple serious shocks ranging from her new husband being murdered in front of her to finding out he’s alive after all to discovering her other new husband kissing another woman.  This all appears totally normal to her. 

  I haven’t even gotten to Cary Grant, mainly because the movie barely worries about…

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  Review by Kari ★★★

  I watched this movie because I needed a Cary Grant fix. I considered Jean Harlow and Franchot Tone a bonus. By the end, I preferred Harlow and Tone because Grant was such an unlikable cad. In the first half, Harlow was really adorable and fun-loving. She was such a pretty lady but I really disliked her thin eyebrows. She had the thinnest ones in the movie. I wonder if that was her choice or someone else's?

  I expected the dialogue to be more acerbic since Dorothy Parker was one of the writers. This film seemed to have trouble deciding what it wanted to be. The mix of tones throughout was odd.

  Watched it again on 4.5.2021 and raised it to 3 stars. I still didn't like how thin Harlow's eyebrows were but I loved her more natural-colored hair. She elevated the film with her fine performance. I liked seeing Inez Courtney in a small role.