1h 17min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 31 October 1951
Director: Richard Sale
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Zachary Scott, ..., Marilyn Monroe.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043736/
Watched online, mediocre print.
Another comedy of remarriage. Watched because of MM, who is 6th billed, and she barely appears in 2 or 3 brief scenes. She has most of her persona intact, maybe even showing a tinge of the vulnerability because she doesn't make any headway with her object, ZS.
CC performs as usual: a trouper. It's just not that interesting, because I don't like either of her love interests, neither the actors nor the characters written. And the young couple is truly annoying. CC's character has no depth; she only reacts to those around her, and she does little to control who lingers around her.
So here we are in '51, and instead of Fred MacMurray and Don Ameche, we get Macdonald Carey and Zachary Scott. Would Fred and Don cost too much for this film? Fred has 2 mediocre releases this year; Don is hosting a TV show with Frances Langford, and her name is first in the title.
5th of 67 films for Robert Wagner.
MC was spraying his roses with DDT. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring comes out in '62.
Fox, dir. Sale; 6
