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Affectionately Yours
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
Release : | 1941 |
Rating : | 5.7 |
Studio : | Warner Bros. Pictures, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Merle Oberon Dennis Morgan Rita Hayworth Ralph Bellamy George Tobias |
Genre : | Comedy Romance |
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Boring
Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Perfect example of the screwball comedy of the 1930s and 1940s is "Affectionately Yours."Ralph Bellamy seemed to be stuck in the part of the prospective bridegroom who never quite makes it down the aisle to matrimonial bliss. The film also gave Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly Queen the opportunity to work again 2 years after the memorable "Gone With the Wind." Sadly, their talents were basically wasted here. McDaniel again is cunning and sly as a maid but she is given little material to work with. Ditto for McQueen who reminded me in "Mildred Pierce" of introducing all guests coming into the house. She is forever crying and after all, she isn't exactly burping those babies as she did 2 years before.The film would have been better had there been some international intrigue as the Dennis Morgan part was that of a foreign reporter. Here we have wife Merle Oberon divorcing Dennis because he is rarely around. The picture is devoted to Morgan trying to woo wife Merle back. Bellamy is her new beau and Rita Hayworth plays a reporter with designs on Morgan as well. James Gleason is Morgan's boss who only sees breaking up the latter with his wife so that he can get the most out of him work-wise.The ending is almost slapstick-like and not much appreciated.
Another reviewer used the word "trite" to characterize the plot of this film. Amen to that! As for the film as a whole? How about lame? Really lame! Since this was a 1940s Warner Brothers production featuring several of that studio's stalwart players, I had high hopes when I saw it for the first, and almost certainly ONLY, time. But, really, this is a silly story that is hardly ever funny and simply makes everyone involved look foolish. (Butterfly McQueen absolutely sobs her way through this movie. Makes you wish someone had taken her apron and gagged her with it!) I love the WB product of the 1940s, but this is really a let down. Don't expect anything like "Christmas in Connecticut"!
As a fan of Rita Hayworth, this is the only reason I wanted to watch this movie. She is in fine form, as are the all the actors. It's just such an insipid story that it bored me. I could not wait for it to be over.I didn't like Rickey (Morgan) since he is such a womanizer. I wondered why would Rita want him after discovering what a player he is. I also wondered why Sue (Oberon) would want him again. I guess it's me: I just don't see why those two smart women would each want a man like that.It's always fun to watch Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen, but they too often played the same roles over and over and over. Anyway, view for it Rita, but don't expect a great movie. Check your brain at the door.
Richard Mayberry is a world traveling newspaper reporter, who plays around with lots of women, excepting his own wife, who has to stay at home. He's in Lisbon, trying to mess around with lady reporter Irene Malcolm, and she's all for it: but she's like him to leave his wife first.Meanwhile, his wife Sue has meet "Mr. Wright," literally, and she's about to divorce her husband. Lot of fluffy misunderstandings, misappointments and misdeals follow, as Richard tries to either make his wife jealous with Irene, or tries to foist Irene off on Owen Wright.You have to watch it to find out what happens, but there is certainly a fair amount of screwball comedy along the way to finding out!