Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA GI marries the English girlfriend of his best friend to get her into the U.S. for his friend who lost track of her in the war only to find on returning home that he is stuck with the girl ... Tout lireA GI marries the English girlfriend of his best friend to get her into the U.S. for his friend who lost track of her in the war only to find on returning home that he is stuck with the girl because the friend has married someone else.A GI marries the English girlfriend of his best friend to get her into the U.S. for his friend who lost track of her in the war only to find on returning home that he is stuck with the girl because the friend has married someone else.
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- Prix
- 1 victoire au total
- Corporal
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- George Beachwood
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- Waiter
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- Nightclub Patron
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- Nightclub Patron
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- Orchestra Leader
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- Waiter
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- Soldier
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- Bartender
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Avis en vedette
Ronald Reagan and Jack Carson are hilarious together. They both are on the edge of a nervous breakdown throughout the story because of all of the trouble they've gotten themselves into. One lie leads to another and their troubles get bigger and bigger.
I think that Patricia Neal does a good job in this role. I think that she was a great actress but I'm not sure that this was the best role for her. The movie was originally planned for Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan together but when the Reagans split up, the part of Mary was given to Patricia Neal.
When I come across people who have not seen any of Ronald Reagan's movies, I think of this one. He does a great job with this comedy.
I hope that everyone enjoys it as much as I do.
On Broadway the cast included William Prince, Nina Foch, Tom Ewell, and Lyle Bettger in the roles that Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Jack Carson, and Wayne Morris repeated on screen. The one that really doesn't compute is Lyle Bettger who played such a lovely variety of psychos on the screen. I just can't see him doing comedy or it must have been quite different his interpretation of the blowhard ex-officer that Wayne Morris was. Actually all the stage cast members did have some substantial screen careers.
Reagan is the John in the film who is coming home to his fiancé Mary played by Patricia Neal in her screen debut. He did real well for himself she being the daughter of US Senator Edward Arnold and Katharine Alexander with a lovely Park Avenue apartment. But it turns out that there's a slight hitch in the wedding plans.
What a guy won't do for a friend, especially one who saved his life during the war. Jack Carson who got his discharge earlier from Uncle Sam is pining over the British girl he left behind. Well Reagan knowing the problem that folks were having coming to America with immigration hurdles, marries Virginia Field and gets over as the bride of a GI. The idea being that they'd take a quick trip to Reno and then Jack Carson can marry her.
All that's needed is a ruse to get Reagan out to Nevada without Neal. And that's what the rest of John Loves Mary is about. It all resolves itself in an interesting way showing none of these people taking those sacred vows of marriage all that seriously.
John Loves Mary is a pleasant if dated comedy. But it's ironic as all heck that with people having real immigration problems and looking to the USA as a beacon of freedom, I think the joke would fall flat with them. Ditto with gay people who are now trying to get the right to marry seeing these people shifting partners like shooters switching off dice in a crap game.
Anyway I'm sure Norman Krasna who wrote this and Warner Brothers who brought it to the screen weren't thinking that deeply here.
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesPatricia Neal's film debut.
- Citations
Lilly Herbish: Tell me, what's it like west of New Jersey?
Sen. James McKinley: Republican!
- ConnexionsReferenced in Cinerama Adventure (2002)
- Bandes originalesSomeone to Watch Over Me
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Music by George Gershwin
Played during the opening credits and often in the score
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Détails
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- Han kunde inte säga nej!
- Lieux de tournage
- 1579 Broadway, Manhattan, Ville de New York, New York, États-Unis(Strand Theatre - exterior establishing shot)
- société de production
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Box-office
- Budget
- 1 346 000 $ US (estimation)
- Durée1 heure 36 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.37 : 1