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Simply Perfect
Teringer
An Exercise In Nonsense
Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
weezeralfalfa
It was love at first sight. John(Jimmy Stewart) and Jane(Carole Lombard) meet on the street, sparks fly, and within a day, they are married. We will find out if they were really made for each other. They return to Stewart's small apartment in NYC, where John's meddling mother(Lucile Watson) is shocked at this development. She was hoping he would marry the boss's daughter, as a step toward acceptance as a partner in his law firm. Jane wants a 2 week honeymoon on a Normandy cruise ship. John has trouble getting his boss(Doolittle)to approve this, but he finally gives in. They get on the ship, and immediately, things go wrong. They have one small bunk in their cabin that the two of them can barely fit on, let along move around on. Then, one of his fellow lawyers arrives with the news that Doolittle orders their trip cancelled, since he needs John for an important case. Caught between a rock and a hard place, John finally acquiesces to Doolittle's demand. They return to their apartment to find John's mother criticizing many things that Jane does. In turn, Jane and the various housekeepers don't get along, so she keeps changing them, until Louise Beavers shows up and offers the sage advice "Don't let the seeds spoil the watermelon". Their financial position doesn't improve, as John is passed over for promotion to a junior partner, and he has to accept a 25% pay cut as an economy measure in a shrinking market. About the same time, Jane has a baby, which gives her a lot more to do, but increases their financial strain. Jane says she can't take any more meddling by her mother -in-law, and the marriage looks in trouble. Things get worse, when the baby comes down with a bad case of pneumonia, and is said to require a rare serum, which must be flown 2000 miles through a blizzard. I leave you to discover the ending, if you can't guess.Yes, as others have noted, this screenplay bears a passing resemblance to that of the subsequent "Penny Serenade", with Cary Grant and Irene Dunn. You may find both of these quite boring if you must have fast action. However, if you like stories of how the sexes can get through difficult times without falling apart, these may be satisfactory. Available at You Tube at present
AaronCapenBanner
John Cromwell directed this marital comedy(with serious overtones) that stars Jimmy Stewart as John Mason, a successful young lawyer with a good law firm who meets, falls in love with, and marries a young woman named Jane(played by Carole Lombard) whom he brings home with him to the disapproval of his mother(played by Lucille Watson). Things become strained when he doesn't get an expected partnership at the firm, and later on, their baby gets sick, forcing John to scramble to get a valuable serum that is the only chance to save its life... Good performances by the leads compensates for uneven nature of the film, which is occasionally awkward , but ultimately appealing.
dsewizzrd-1
Pretty stupid film starring Cary Grant.Cary Grant is a milquetoast lawyer, 'struggling' (with a servant, so not struggling that much then) on a high class lawyer's 'meagre' salary (not like anyone else in 1939 then) and being berated by his odious mother.Grant is a lawyer who marries a woman he met for a few hours in Boston. They play the poor but happy scene struggling in a flat together with Grant's mother (struggling – a lawyer ?).Then the story veers into silly melodrama, as their baby gets pneumonia and a 'special serum' has to be flown from Salt Lake City and everything goes wrong.A few un-PC scenes with a happy negro servant adds interest.
T Y
Ineffectual, molly-coddled, self-pitying, lousy provider Jimmy Stewart is having a bad marriage to Carole Lombard. After falling on hard times, he endures a demeaning job, a fault-finding, passive-aggressive, over-bearing live-in mother who is in dire need of an epic smackdown, and an endlessly-crying baby. The movie trowels on failure and squalor to no discernible end. Do you want to watch a couple bicker with his mom for ninety minutes? Many scenes feature a shrieking baby. The movie fails to elucidate why we would want to endure the mother from hell, or why Jimmy Stewart can't grow a pair. Who wanted to see this? Who wanted to see Stewart and Lombard without laughs or charm?It's absolutely depressing and unendurable.
