Another reteaming of Judy Holliday, George Cukor and Ruth Gordon & Garson Kanin following the previous year's Born Yesterday, Columbia now pushing their new star Aldo Ray. (He was in Pat and Mike and We're No Angels, but I'm afraid I didn't really recognise him.)
Quite realistic feeling of a marriage, with its highs and lows, told in flashback to a divorce judge.
Enjoyed imaginative sequence of Ray's dream which triggers his ball bearing shoes, and the multiple Hollidays...
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| Ray invents DJing |
Ultimately we sided with Judy's character. Ray's doesn't really listen to her, lies about all his flashbacks, ignores her at a party, is distracted, loses his temper far too easily, and is actually fixated with or by (choose correct grammar there) money, which is neatly summarised in a good scene with his friend the butcher (in a trademark long take).
With Madge Kennedy (judge), Sheila Bond, John Alexander, Rex Williams, Mickey Shaughnessy and (uncredited and non-speaking) Charles Bronson.
The couple are lucky enough to live in Gramercy, NYC (albeit in an apartment building). The Latin Quarter referred to is not a district but a night club in Times Square, opened in 1942, now still a night club called 'LQ' within a Radisson Hotel.
Photographed by Joe Walker, music Hugo Friedhofer.
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