A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
Cary Grant Carole Lombard Kay Francis Charles Coburn Helen Vinson Katharine Alexander Jonathan Hale Nella Walker Alan Baxter Maurice Moscovitch Peggy Ann Garner Spencer Charters James Adamson Arthur Aylesworth Lloyd Ingraham Frank Puglia Grady Sutton Jack Chapin Charles Coleman John Dilson Fern Emmett Edward Fliegle Byron Foulger Gus Glassmire Gordon Douglas Jesse Graves Sam Harris Harold Hoff John Laing Show All…
Dos mujeres y un amor, Nur dem Namen nach, L'autre, Non puoi impedirmi d'amare, Ένοχος γυναίκα, Esposa Só no Nome, Doar cu numele
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That awkward moment when Carole Lombard and Cary Grant are brought together in a movie and it's not a comedy.
the sheer PROMISE of the first five minutes of this movie!!! carole lombard is fishing and is VERY BAD at it. cary grant rides in on a HORSE and watches her from a distance while silently chuckling. carole somehow manages to THWACK cary in the face via the fishing rod. cary is wearing JODHPURS. carole has a picnic basket full of a HUNDRED sandwiches, which she fully intends on eating herself, but now that tall dark and handsome has galloped in on his magnificent steed it would just be impolite NOT to have a picnic by the lake. this is a meet cute people!! this is the setup for a perfect movie!! why did they feel the need to make…
“What a cunning child. Yours?”
A movie where Carole Lombard has to save Cary Grant with the power of love when he becomes deathly ill after falling asleep in front of an open window. Foregoing their screwball bonafides for a serious adult melodrama, Cooper and Lombard bring along old friend Kay Francis (imagine drinking good liquor with those three?), fresh off her break from Warner Bros. The first film with Francis untethered from WB is proof that she was still an asset to any studio that was willing to work with her, and not against her.
Francis’ portrayal of the gold-digging, passive aggressive wife of Grant could have easily been caricature, but she makes the role into something subtly heartbreaking.…
Carole Lombard ain't just a comedy queen y'all ok she can make a bitch cryyyyyy. 😩👌🏻👌🏻
john cromwell paired cary grant and carole lombard up in this movie the same year he paired her with jimmy stewart in made for each other, and instead of making what could have been some of the most iconic screwball comedies of all time he made these people be in extremely mediocre and depressing romantic melodramas! why! who gave this man the right to direct???
simultaneously in love with carole lombard and cary grant in this movie like anyone would be
“You didn’t really think I’d let you go, did you?”
Cary Grant eats all the sandwiches. Kay Francis drives ex-boyfriends to suicide. Carole Lombard fly-fishes, badly. While I find this film deeply flawed in the back half, I love what it represents—namely, the kind of modern star-vehicle that Kay Francis rarely got the opportunity to perform in.
Sadly, this is a one-off for freelance Francis, a favor from friend Lombard and director Cromwell—the rest of her career would be filled with Universal character roles and co-produced RKO b-movies that while showing range, are world’s away from this polished and mainstream studio-picture.
⚠️ At the risk of giving away the game early i.e. the details of a piece I’m working on that will highlight the best film from every year of Kay Francis’ career—despite its faults, this is still the standout from her dismal 1939.
Cary cares for Carole which is not okay with Kay. Tearjerky triangle in which Grant and Lombard are paired perfectly and are given roles that display their dramatic range. Despite being only three years older than Carole Lombard, the lighting is less kind for Kay Francis who gamely accepts looking less glamorous than her co-stars, not to mention playing an absolute harridan.
It’s not the best script in the world but it’s consistently engaging and it was from Golden Year 1939, with the lustrous photography of that vintage. The huge treat of watching those two divine faces fall in love with each other in massive closeup on a big cinema screen makes this a four star experience.
81/100
Could have been a pre-code film considering how open this is with divorce and loveless marriage. Script is fairly straightforward but it has smooth flow to it and Cary Grant and Carole Lombard's beautiful romance elevate the quality of the film. They have a really great chemistry and share some wonderfully tender moments. Then you add Kay Francis' terrific portrayal of an evil wife, someone you love to hate. It starts off as something light but slowly evolves into something more mature and somewhat dark melodrama. There are one or two iffy elements and especially ending is perhaps bit too much but I certainly loved it. Cromwell does a nice job of balancing the drama, romance, humour and the…
The gall to cast Cary Grant and Carole Lombard in a movie together and it's not a screwball comedy.
What can I say, it's 94 minutes of Carole Lombard being A+ emotional support for everyone including me.
This is really not a good movie and nothing about it is very appealing to me but omg Carole Lombard and Cary Grant share a tender moment and…suddenly this is a good movie!
