2h 6min | Drama, Romance, War | June 1944
Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Frank Morgan, Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, C. Aubrey Smith, Gladys Cooper, Peter Lawford
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037462/
ID plays her character from about 1914 (or perhaps a bit before), when she's not long out of school, to the present day ('44). So the film walks us through WW1, the years after, and WW2, mostly from the perspective of this American woman in Britain.
I like ID in almost everything she does. I don't think she sang at all here, even when they entertained each other at home.
RM (b. 1928) already has a couple dozen movies behind him (started in '38), including Flicka and Lassie, so he really is 3rd billed here although he's a young teen. When they advance the story, his character grows up to be Peter Lawford, which works pretty well facially.
ET (b. 1932) plays a flirty 10 y.o. I don't remember if her grown-up version was in the story, but she was definitely interested in RM. This was her 4th film; she was with Lassie too.
I liked very much the scene between the wars of the 2 German boys entertained by RM at his estate. The younger was a Hitler Youth without stating that, because he was RM's age or younger, and was learning how to fly gliders (where he's the pilot on board, not just toys you fling in the air). That was part of the elite HY training to feed into the Luftwaffe.
It's sorta long, but worthwhile.
MGM, dir. Brown; 6+
