Keeping Company

Frank Morgan day on Turner Classics! in this one, his daughters are Mary (Ann Rutherford), Harriet (Virginia Weidler, the precocious child from The Women) and Evelyn (Gloria DeHaven). one daughter is thinking about getting married. and one is sticking her nose into everyone else's business. and when one of the daughters DOES get married, mom and dad give the bride and groom advice. the newlyweds both insist nothing could make them mad at each other. foreshadowing, for sure! now we know there will be some little misunderstanding that will snowball into something much bigger than it needs to be! an updated version of much ado about nothing. kind of. this was one of the SEVEN films Morgan made in 1940... just after the Wizard of Oz! directed by Sylvan Simon. Simon died so young at 41 of a heart attack. opening credits say story by Herman Mankiewicz. he also died so young at 55, but just look at the list of things he wrote in his short life! this is a fun one. takes a while to get going, but the second half moves right along. Morgan can jazz up any film, and this one might have been a snoozer without him.