Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve star in The April Fools about a pair who on
one irresistible fall in love and decide to go off to Paris. The problem is that
they're married to different people.
In Lemmon's case it's his boss's wife, his brand new boss Peter Lawford who is a free swinging hedonist who likes to throw parties at his Manhattan townhouse. It's there that Lemmon spots Catherine Deneuve looking quite bored at it all and he's struck by her beauty. The two go off where an older couple played by Myrna Loy and Charles Boyer kind of play matchmaker.
Lemmon is married to Sally Kellerman who has an expensive hobby, redecorating homes, her homes. And once she completes a project she gets Lemmon to sell. Gives new meaning to the term housewife. It's Lemmon who has to foot the bills for her because she doesn't work. And in Craig's wife we know about people who value their living space over all.
In the Citadel Film series book on the films of Myrna Loy she mentions that a lot of her footage with Charles Boyer was cut out. The two old timers stand out certainly and I wish there was more of them.
Jack Weston and Harvey Korman play a couple of fellow Connecticut commuters and they do have a memorable journey back home when they miss their stop and decide to get plastered along with Lemmon.
The April Fools has its moments but it's not the best of Jack Lemmon's comedies and won't make a top ten list for him.
In Lemmon's case it's his boss's wife, his brand new boss Peter Lawford who is a free swinging hedonist who likes to throw parties at his Manhattan townhouse. It's there that Lemmon spots Catherine Deneuve looking quite bored at it all and he's struck by her beauty. The two go off where an older couple played by Myrna Loy and Charles Boyer kind of play matchmaker.
Lemmon is married to Sally Kellerman who has an expensive hobby, redecorating homes, her homes. And once she completes a project she gets Lemmon to sell. Gives new meaning to the term housewife. It's Lemmon who has to foot the bills for her because she doesn't work. And in Craig's wife we know about people who value their living space over all.
In the Citadel Film series book on the films of Myrna Loy she mentions that a lot of her footage with Charles Boyer was cut out. The two old timers stand out certainly and I wish there was more of them.
Jack Weston and Harvey Korman play a couple of fellow Connecticut commuters and they do have a memorable journey back home when they miss their stop and decide to get plastered along with Lemmon.
The April Fools has its moments but it's not the best of Jack Lemmon's comedies and won't make a top ten list for him.