Rings on Her Fingers

1942
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1h 26m

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Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney in Rings on Her Fingers (1942)

Two con artists take a shopgirl under their wing, but she disrupts their marrying-for-money scheme by falling for a mathematician.Two con artists take a shopgirl under their wing, but she disrupts their marrying-for-money scheme by falling for a mathematician.Two con artists take a shopgirl under their wing, but she disrupts their marrying-for-money scheme by falling for a mathematician.

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6.6/10

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Trivia
When Laird Cregar asks who Gene Tierney, then serving in a shop, is, Spring Byington tartly remarks, "A shop-girl, of course. Who did you think she was--Brenda Frazier?" The very glamorous and wealthy Brenda Frazier was the most famous debutante of the 1930s.

Goofs
When John slides his roulette chips across the table to cash them in, other people's bets are corralled with them, yet no one complains.

Quotes
Susan Miller: Say, are you really millionaires?
[Warren and Maybelle burst into laughter]
Warren: Why?
Susan Miller: Well, there seems to be something missing.
Mrs. Maybelle Worthington: Just the millions, and they can't rule you out for a technicality.
Warren: You see, nature played a little trick on us: we should have been born with blue blood, so we have devoted our entire life to correcting this... biological error.
Susan Miller: What do you do? If you're not, what are you?
Mrs. Maybelle Worthington: Well, we're sort of an excess profits tax. To criticize us would be unamerican.
Warren: We are merely bees that take a little nectar from the flowers that have so much. And you too can have some.

Connections
Featured in AFI Life Achievement Award: AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda (1978)

Soundtracks
Yo, Ho, Ho, and a Bottle of Rum
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Played and sung at the beginning

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7/10

A pleasant surprise

In 1941, a year after Fonda made "Grapes of Wrath" for Twentieth Century Fox', the studio loaned him out to Paramount Pictures for Preston Sturges' hugely successful "Lady Eve." That film gave Fonda a rare chance to play comedy, and he is particularly believable and appealing as the naive millionaire. Fox's head of production, Daryl Zanuck, saw the tremendous box-office potential in casting his dramatic star in similar roles, and a year later produced this pleasant ripoff of Sturges' premise: what would happen if a con-artist (in "Eve" Stanwyck, in this film Gene Tierney) fell for the man she'd conned. Tierney is as always very lovely and considerably less wooden than normal in the part of the reformed crook, but it is Fonda with his All-American Boy good looks who steals the show. Rouben Mamoulian, usually not associated with this sort of fluff, does an excellent job of directing.