I watched I Take This Woman this morning on TMC. I am going to comment on the movie and the year it was filmed.
The year was 1940, and this country had just entered WW II. The mood in the country was somber and thousands of young men had just gone off to war. Many movies were made at this time to be up-lifting and romantic. Escapism movies, not realistic! I thought the chemistry between Tracy and Lamarr was fantastic! Was Tracy any more handsome, that expressive face of his. Lamarr was so beautiful, it almost hurt to look at her. I know it was kind of a rookie story, doctor saves the heroine on a boat from Yucatan back to the states. She has been scorned by her married lover. She tries to throw herself overboard. He saves her. How romantic is that! She gets a job in a clinic he works at in a poor neighborhood, and the story continues with a satisfying ending.
The only downer I have with this movie is "Sambo" the clinic janitor. Typical Hollywood stuff at that time about Blacks, that they should act like total morons. I felt very uncomfortable watching this movie with Sambo in the few scenes he was in the movie. Why was Hollywood projecting the image that all Blacks were nothing but nannies and janitors I am very offended by this, but then, so many movies of the time had this theme. That scene when Sambo was eating a piece of wedding cake was criminal! Anyway, a feast for the eyes, except for the Sambo stuff.
The year was 1940, and this country had just entered WW II. The mood in the country was somber and thousands of young men had just gone off to war. Many movies were made at this time to be up-lifting and romantic. Escapism movies, not realistic! I thought the chemistry between Tracy and Lamarr was fantastic! Was Tracy any more handsome, that expressive face of his. Lamarr was so beautiful, it almost hurt to look at her. I know it was kind of a rookie story, doctor saves the heroine on a boat from Yucatan back to the states. She has been scorned by her married lover. She tries to throw herself overboard. He saves her. How romantic is that! She gets a job in a clinic he works at in a poor neighborhood, and the story continues with a satisfying ending.
The only downer I have with this movie is "Sambo" the clinic janitor. Typical Hollywood stuff at that time about Blacks, that they should act like total morons. I felt very uncomfortable watching this movie with Sambo in the few scenes he was in the movie. Why was Hollywood projecting the image that all Blacks were nothing but nannies and janitors I am very offended by this, but then, so many movies of the time had this theme. That scene when Sambo was eating a piece of wedding cake was criminal! Anyway, a feast for the eyes, except for the Sambo stuff.