After having a bad week I decided to try get back into movie viewing. Taking a look at BBC iPlayer,I found a sweet-sounding RKO title about to leave the site,which led to me meeting the vivacious lady.
The plot:
Going to pick up his partying cousin Keith, botany professor Peter Morgan, Jr. catches a glimpse of nightclub dancer Francey. After knowing each other for just one day,the couple get married. Returning to his upper-class family home,Peter finds Francey to receive a less than warm reception.
View on the film:
Gliding across the screen, Ginger Rogers gives a bubbly performance as Francey,who is given a smooth Screwball Comedy sass in the snappy dialogue by Rogers. Causing months of delay just four days into shooting, (and Donald Crisp and Fay Bainter being replaced by the very good Charles Coburn and Beulah Bondi.) James Stewart (who got the role thanks to his girlfriend Rogers) gives a breezy performance as Peter Morgan,with Stewart's real-life romance with Rogers coming across in the comedic playful interplay between the couple.
Encouraging the care-free atmosphere, director George Stevens & cinematographer Robert De Grasse keep things stylishly glossy,with elegant whip-pans going behind the closed doors of Francey's and Morgan's romance. Playing to the differences in class between the upper-crust Morgan's and the rough & tumble Francey, the screenplay by Ernest Pagano/I.A.R. Wylie/Anne Morrison Chapin and P.J. Wolfson spins easy-going Screwball Comedy one liners with a sweet threading of the romance between Morgan and the vivacious lady.
The plot:
Going to pick up his partying cousin Keith, botany professor Peter Morgan, Jr. catches a glimpse of nightclub dancer Francey. After knowing each other for just one day,the couple get married. Returning to his upper-class family home,Peter finds Francey to receive a less than warm reception.
View on the film:
Gliding across the screen, Ginger Rogers gives a bubbly performance as Francey,who is given a smooth Screwball Comedy sass in the snappy dialogue by Rogers. Causing months of delay just four days into shooting, (and Donald Crisp and Fay Bainter being replaced by the very good Charles Coburn and Beulah Bondi.) James Stewart (who got the role thanks to his girlfriend Rogers) gives a breezy performance as Peter Morgan,with Stewart's real-life romance with Rogers coming across in the comedic playful interplay between the couple.
Encouraging the care-free atmosphere, director George Stevens & cinematographer Robert De Grasse keep things stylishly glossy,with elegant whip-pans going behind the closed doors of Francey's and Morgan's romance. Playing to the differences in class between the upper-crust Morgan's and the rough & tumble Francey, the screenplay by Ernest Pagano/I.A.R. Wylie/Anne Morrison Chapin and P.J. Wolfson spins easy-going Screwball Comedy one liners with a sweet threading of the romance between Morgan and the vivacious lady.