With Christmas coming up I started to look at a DVD sellers page for titles that my dad would enjoy watching during the X-Mas holiday,and I spotted a movie which featured the second (of 3) team-ups between Melvyn Douglas & Joan Blondell,which led to me getting ready to find out how good these girls could be.
The plot:
Leaving England behind and his fiancé , Ronald Brooke goes to teach English literature at a US university.Feeling out of his comfort zone,Brooke keeps a tight grip on his teaching notes.Whilst thinking up a lesson to do with his students whilst sitting in a diner,Brooke catches the attention of waitress Jenny Swanson,who spots Brooke writing notes on a magazine with a jet-set lifestyle girl on the front cover.As Brooke tells Swanson that she can get whatever she wants with hard work,Swanson starts setting her sights on using all her charms to get the jet-set lifestyle she desires,which includes getting close to Brooke's future in-laws.
View on the film:
Whilst Swanson gets herself involved in murky blackmail and gold- digging,the cute Joan Blondell gives a terrific performance as Swanson,with Blondell covering Swanson with a wry butter wouldn't melt in her mouth smile,which gives the film a mischievous atmosphere.Trying desperately to stay on track, Melvyn Douglas gives a wonderful performance as Brooke,with Douglas hilariously showing Brooke's reach his wits end as he tries to keep his English upper crust alive.Peeling away every gold-digging turn with classy,but restrained directing from Alexander Hall, Gladys Lehman & Ken Englund adaptation of Lenore J. Coffee & William J. Cowen mixes dashes of Screwball Comedy with charmingly overripe "Women's Picture",as Swanson's outfoxing of all the men is joined by slick one liners which reveal Swanson's plans to be sliding out of control,as Swanson discovers that bad girls can go to Paris to.
The plot:
Leaving England behind and his fiancé , Ronald Brooke goes to teach English literature at a US university.Feeling out of his comfort zone,Brooke keeps a tight grip on his teaching notes.Whilst thinking up a lesson to do with his students whilst sitting in a diner,Brooke catches the attention of waitress Jenny Swanson,who spots Brooke writing notes on a magazine with a jet-set lifestyle girl on the front cover.As Brooke tells Swanson that she can get whatever she wants with hard work,Swanson starts setting her sights on using all her charms to get the jet-set lifestyle she desires,which includes getting close to Brooke's future in-laws.
View on the film:
Whilst Swanson gets herself involved in murky blackmail and gold- digging,the cute Joan Blondell gives a terrific performance as Swanson,with Blondell covering Swanson with a wry butter wouldn't melt in her mouth smile,which gives the film a mischievous atmosphere.Trying desperately to stay on track, Melvyn Douglas gives a wonderful performance as Brooke,with Douglas hilariously showing Brooke's reach his wits end as he tries to keep his English upper crust alive.Peeling away every gold-digging turn with classy,but restrained directing from Alexander Hall, Gladys Lehman & Ken Englund adaptation of Lenore J. Coffee & William J. Cowen mixes dashes of Screwball Comedy with charmingly overripe "Women's Picture",as Swanson's outfoxing of all the men is joined by slick one liners which reveal Swanson's plans to be sliding out of control,as Swanson discovers that bad girls can go to Paris to.