The Moon Is Blue

1953
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1h 39m

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6,7/10

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Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.

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Farce Satire Screwball Comedy Comedy Romance

Deux playboys vieillissants courent après la même séduisante jeune femme, mais elle les repousse en prétendant qu'elle entend bien rester vierge jusqu'à sa nuit de noce. Les deux hommes déci... Tout lireDeux playboys vieillissants courent après la même séduisante jeune femme, mais elle les repousse en prétendant qu'elle entend bien rester vierge jusqu'à sa nuit de noce. Les deux hommes décident de trouver un moyen de contourner ses objections.Deux playboys vieillissants courent après la même séduisante jeune femme, mais elle les repousse en prétendant qu'elle entend bien rester vierge jusqu'à sa nuit de noce. Les deux hommes décident de trouver un moyen de contourner ses objections.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,7/10

2,6 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Nommé pour 3 oscars
- 1 victoire et 6 nominations au total

Anecdotes
First mainstream Hollywood film to use the word "virgin," after a battle with the official and unofficial censors. Also the first use of "seduce" and "mistress" (as a sexual partner). The movie was banned from theaters in Boston for using these words.

Gaffes
After Donald (William Holden) goes out to meet Cynthia (Dawn Adams) Patty (Maggie McNamra) clears the meal things away and collapses the table but she never saw how it was put up.

Citations
Donald Gresham: Believe it or not, I am a full-fledged architect. Build you anything from a cathedral to a bomb shelter.
Patty O'Neill: How much would a cathedral cost these days? A small one.

Autres versions
The filmed was made in two versions, a US version with Holden, McNamara and Niven in the leads, and a German version, Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953), with Krueger, Matz, and Heesters in the corresponding roles. Krueger and Matz have a brief cameo as tourists in the US version, and Holden and McNamara make the same cameo in the German version.

Connexions
Alternate-language version of Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953)

Bandes originales
The Moon Is Blue
Music by Herschel Burke Gilbert
Lyrics by Sylvia Fine
Presentation by The Sauter Finegan Band (as The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra)

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David Niven at this best

This is one of my favorite old movies. Although William Holden is the leading man here this is one of those movies where one of the side characters is the most memorable. In this case it's David Niven. He's such a stuffed shirt that about as cavalier as he can manage to get is when he tells Peggy's character "I want to kiss you until your lips are somewhat bruised". He relates the story of the failure of his first marriage to a "southern gal" who was always baking pop overs and served them at every meal. After dinner she would always drawl "wasn't them popovers good?". He stood all he could of this airhead until one day when he hit her across the rear end with a hot popover pan. He said " it raised quite a welt, although I was not privileged to see it." When Peggy later says her feet hurt he says "never say your feet hurt. My foot hurts singular is acceptable but to say my feet hurt is a rather sordid admission." The fact that I am writing these lines from memory will tell you how much fun I had watching this movie over and over. William Holden was the king of the movies as far as I'm concerned and he was charming and at his best in this movie. He made more really good memorable movies than Clark Gable could have hoped for. This movie is not well known and as far as I'm able to find out is not available of DVD. I'm hoping is will be eventually because it's a nice funny little movie that shows New York in it's heyday.