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One of my all time favorites.

A Masterpiece!

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

. . . in this Warner Bros. spoof of GONE WITH THE WIND. Rita Hayworth is STRAWBERRY BLONDE's incarnation of Scarlett O'Hara, though her title character is called "Virginia Brush" here to avoid infringing upon MGM's copyrights. No GWTW parody would be complete without a Rhett Butler, so Jack Carson's "Hugo F. Barnstead" stands in for that caddish scoundrel. James Cagney is spot on as feisty milquetoast oxymoron Mr. Wilkes, otherwise known as mail-ordered dentist "Biff Grimes." In a stunning lack of casting imagination, Olivia De Havilland reprises her own Melanie role under the guise of "Amy Lind" here. As in GWTW, the Ashley\Biff character gets separated from his wife for a five-year ordeal. Just as in GWTW, the Melanie\Amy lady gets pregnant before the Scarlett\Virginia hussy. As in GWTW, the former is a plain homebody with simple tastes, while the latter lives life large to extravagant excess. Both movies contain racist song lyrics, and an Irish dad accidentally dying at an inopportune juncture. But STRAWBERRY BLONDE wins the better picture award hands down, since you can view it in one sitting and it concludes with audience karaoke rather than with a lot of swearing.

A lovely film with perfect performances from all four leads. Cagney is at his braggart best in the early going changing and maturing in a real, believable way. Olivia saucy and a bit bold but with a tenderness underneath, one of her best early performances. They share an immensely moving scene in the later part of the film, some of the best acting either ever did. Jack Carson with his oily glad handing charm is a marvelous fit for the mercenary, boorish, contemptible and rather stupid Hugo. But the one who benefited most from this film was Rita Hayworth. She had been slowly working her way up the ladder to this point but taking over the role when Ann Sheridan got into a dispute with her Warner bosses she took it between her teeth and ran with it all the way to A list stardom. Beautiful and flighty and every mans fantasy she is sublime in her single minded pursuit of wealth and position. Witty and wry and looking sensational in the period clothing she also skillfully shows her character's gradual change from coquettish young filly to dissatisfied, hardened shrew. Walsh sets a sprightly tone to the film and moves it forward at an assured pace helped greatly by several members of the Warner stock company especially Alan Hale and George Tobias. Not as well known as it should be this is classic cinema from Hollywood's Golden age.

I originally watched this movie just for James Cagney, but recently looked at it again. I was interested in the period setting as much as anything, but I discovered this was a movie that I enjoyed more with each viewing.Although the dialog may be corny and simplistic in places, this is a well written story that holds up over time. All the principal actors are great. You can see why they were movie stars--you can't take your eyes off of any of them. The progression over the years of the relationships between the four of them makes up the bulk of the action, and it is fun to watch these two couples. Things never get too heavy, even when terrible things continue to happen. The ending is one of the more satisfying resolutions to any film I've enjoyed. And again, I really like the turn of the century small town America setting. The only element I wasn't really into was the deadbeat dad subplot.The fact that it was directed by the same guy who did White Heat makes you realize how much talent was at work here.

Almost all of Cagney's early roles were that of a gangster or a fast-talking con-man. Starting in the 40's as the major studios ramped up their production of patriotic films in anticipation of war, Cagney starred in some military roles such as "The Fighting 69th" and "Captains of the Clouds". However, it was still the same old wise-cracking gangster or con-man - he was just in uniform. Don't get me wrong, I never get tired watching Cagney play these kinds of parts, but I've read that the typecasting was a source of friction between himself and Warner Brothers.This film is a real departure from the kind of role that Cagney had grown tired of by 1934. In it he plays Biff Grimes, a dentist at the beginning of the 20th century. Biff has had a series of misfortunes heaped upon him throughout his life. To begin with his Dad (Alan Hale) is a ne'er-do-well, and he has a "friend" Hugo F. Barnstead (Jack Carson) who is always managing to get the best of him and then some. Hugo works up from small slights such as not paying back money or leaving Biff with the tab to stealing and marrying Biff's ideal girl and finally setting Biff up to take the fall in some substandard work Hugo's company has done for the city. After Biff gets out of prison after serving time for a crime he didn't commit, he has a chance to get even with Hugo -as in killing him - and make it look like an accident. Since most of the movie is told in flashback, and Cagney is playing a likable if somewhat gullible fellow who has been deeply wronged, you don't know how it will end or what he will do. The supporting cast is great in this one. Jack Carson was always playing the slippery type in Warner films around this time, and he does the job of playing Hugo with believable gusto, always making excuses for his part in Biff's predicaments. Rita Hayworth is cast as "the strawberry blonde" that Biff loses to Hugo, and Olivia De Havilland plays the girl Biff ultimately marries. She turns out to the one piece of good luck that Biff has as she is tough and loyal in a crisis.A bittersweet romantic comedy, this is one of my favorite post-code Cagney films.