Without Reservations

1946
Approved
1h 47m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

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John Wayne, Claudette Colbert, and Don DeFore in Without Reservations (1946)

En route to Hollywood, an author becomes smitten with a marine, though he is unaware of her celebrity status and is critical of her best-selling novel.

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Comedy Romance

En route to Hollywood, an author becomes smitten with a marine, though he is unaware of her celebrity status and is critical of her best-selling novel.En route to Hollywood, an author becomes smitten with a marine, though he is unaware of her celebrity status and is critical of her best-selling novel.En route to Hollywood, an author becomes smitten with a marine, though he is unaware of her celebrity status and is critical of her best-selling novel.

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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

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Louella Parsons
(as Miss Louella Parsons)

Eric Alden

Chauffeur
(uncredited)

Fred Aldrich

Train Passenger
(uncredited)

Jose Alvarado

Mexican Boy
(uncredited)

Ernest Anderson

Dining Car Waiter
(uncredited)

Robert Anderson

Radio Announcer
(uncredited)

Lois Austin

Senator
(uncredited)

Griff Barnett

Train Conductor
(uncredited)

Director
- Mervyn LeRoy
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Trivia
Mervyn LeRoy's tinsel town connections made for a few interesting cameos in Without Reservations. Look for Jack Benny as an autograph seeker in the train station. Louella Parsons plays a Hollywood radio gossiper. Cary Grant also appears for a dance sequence. Apparently Grant walked by the set one day during filming and LeRoy asked him to come in. Even the director himself makes an on-screen appearance, dining with Claudette Colbert. Dolores Moran and Raymond Burr (an uncredited "Paul Gill") also make uncredited cameo appearances.

Goofs
Just before Louella Parsons is seen in the radio studio, an exterior shot shows a building with the name NBC, but when Parsons is at the mic, it is marked ABC.

Quotes
Rusty: Have you heard of some fellas, who first came over to this country? You know what they found? They found a howling wilderness, with summers too hot, and winters freezing. Did they have insurance for their old age, for their crops, for their homes? They did not. They looked at the land and the forest and the rivers they looked at their wives, their kids, and their houses. Then they looked up at the sky and said thanks God, we'll take it from here. They were men!

Connections
Featured in Discovering Film: Claudette Colbert (2015)

Soundtracks
Cow Cow Boogie
Music by Don Raye
Lyrics by Benny Carter and Gene de Paul
Played in club car on train to California

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Featured review

8/10

"John Wayne can indeed act"

Many in the Hollywood elite belittled John Wayne. To get back at him for his Americanist views, liberals panned his movies and acting ability. If you have seen "The Quiet Man" or "The Searchers" or "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" or "The Sands of Iwo Jima" amongst many others, you already know that John Wayne could indeed act.

Watch "Without Reservations." My family loves John Wayne but who would have thought he could do comedy? And then do it well?

"Without Reservations" is a funny, amusing, delightful movie which is one of my wife's favorite (a New York City liberal by the way). Get a big bowl of popcorn. Sit back with your family and enjoy a lighthearted adventure. Cobert and Don Dafore are perfectly cast.