Another film showcasing Americana at its best during the turn of the 20th century.
Celeste Holm and Dan Dailey are wonderful together, as she seeks divorce after 20 years of marriage due to his bumbling finances.
Though a bank president, Dailey has ventured into some risky unsuccessful investments and as a result, Holm takes in boarders to pay off the mortgage.
In flashback sequence, Holm recounts that the investments may have failed, but the town was lifted by them-especially the hospital.
An assortment of boarders to remember include Connie Gilchrist as a drunken former diva who thinks she is still performing, Veda Ann Borg, her wayward daughter, who does an excellent imitation of Mae West. (Borg is best remembered for being the waitress who told Susan Hayward to keep a flask of booze in "I'll Cry Tomorrow." William Frawley as her husband, of all people, who Dailey decides to have reconcile with Borg so that he can get Frawley into his latest investment scheme, a milk-toast young asthmatic man, held back by his mother who feigns heart illness each time he tries to be independent and a biology spinster maiden teacher trying to find love with a fellow boarder. The scene where they all interact at once is hilarious.
A taste of tradition, and Americana at its utter best.
Celeste Holm and Dan Dailey are wonderful together, as she seeks divorce after 20 years of marriage due to his bumbling finances.
Though a bank president, Dailey has ventured into some risky unsuccessful investments and as a result, Holm takes in boarders to pay off the mortgage.
In flashback sequence, Holm recounts that the investments may have failed, but the town was lifted by them-especially the hospital.
An assortment of boarders to remember include Connie Gilchrist as a drunken former diva who thinks she is still performing, Veda Ann Borg, her wayward daughter, who does an excellent imitation of Mae West. (Borg is best remembered for being the waitress who told Susan Hayward to keep a flask of booze in "I'll Cry Tomorrow." William Frawley as her husband, of all people, who Dailey decides to have reconcile with Borg so that he can get Frawley into his latest investment scheme, a milk-toast young asthmatic man, held back by his mother who feigns heart illness each time he tries to be independent and a biology spinster maiden teacher trying to find love with a fellow boarder. The scene where they all interact at once is hilarious.
A taste of tradition, and Americana at its utter best.