Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuHarvard seniors Sam and Lippencott plan to sail to Siberia after graduation, but Sam's girlfriend Alex wants him at her college dance. When the sailing date moves up to clash with dance, fri... Alles lesenHarvard seniors Sam and Lippencott plan to sail to Siberia after graduation, but Sam's girlfriend Alex wants him at her college dance. When the sailing date moves up to clash with dance, friends on both sides to influence Sam's choice.Harvard seniors Sam and Lippencott plan to sail to Siberia after graduation, but Sam's girlfriend Alex wants him at her college dance. When the sailing date moves up to clash with dance, friends on both sides to influence Sam's choice.
- Mady Platt
- (as Jacqueline Wells)
- Mildred
- (as Renee Riano)
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The plot of this film really just had nothing to hold my interest and most of the actors seem a bit long in the tooth to be realistic as college students. The only thing that saves this movie at all is some of the acting, especially by some of the character actors, which is pretty well-done. I like Joyce Compton as Sally, man crazy blonde who only comes to college for the weekend dances, and Sterling Holloway as a Yale man, who seems to mainly hang about in the girl's college dorm lobby. And, well, Lew Ayres does look kind of cute in his polka dot pajamas in one scene. All in all, though, this movie is really just plain dumb.
Though all of the cast look too old to be college kids, they pitch in with high spirits and manage to make it seem like they had a ball making this. Maureen O'Sullivan looks more beautiful than in anything else I've ever seen her in (including her TARZAN pictures), Lew Ayers and Burgess Meredith are skillful if not especially interesting, and Ruth Hussey delivers her sardonic dialog with delicious dryness. No one in this ensemble cast lets the team down, they all deliver. You couldn't be blamed for passing this by, but if you have the chance you should check it out. It shows what energy and ingenuity can do to perk up a routine script.
The five women who are housemates at NCW are played by Maureen O'Sullivan (Alex), Ruth Hussey (Kate), Ann Morriss (Frances), Joyce Compton (Sally), Julie Bishop (Mady) and Marjorie Gateson (Miss Ritchie).
The action follows two Harvard seniors, Sam (Lew Ayres) and his buddy, known as The Lippencott (Burgess Meredith). They have plans to visit Russia for two years, working and studying. They want to avoid the usual post-graduation path---a conventional job and, probably, marriage. The crux of the conflict in this rom-com is that Sam and Alex met during the break and strong feelings are undeniable. As Alex has stars in her eyes, Sam is finalizing plans to vamoose.
Yes, the story is simple, but the execution is so much fun. The dialogue is steeped in the lingo of the day. The cast is charming. And it is always fun to watch the upcoming stars of the era. For instance, this is the last of five films released in 1938 starring Maureen O'Sullivan, and it is after her third appearance in a Tarzan film.
In addition to Miss O'Sullivan's usual charms, I especially enjoyed Miss Hussey. And when it comes to fun, Miss Compton has "plent". Sally is a prodigious flirt and can wrap any man, it seems, around her little finger.
Ayres and Meredith are, likewise, great together. The men try to remain true to their pact to travel to Russia, but the women develop a three-pronged strategy to assist Alex's plans.
My favorite scene is where the girls goad the police into giving the boys a ticket. And the big dance scene is quite fab and tres cray.
A good B picture cast like Maureen O'Sullivan, Ruth Hussey, Julie Bishop, and Ann Morriss head the cast which is set at a girl's ivy league college. They do fine.
But I think the reason this play flopped because the leading male character played by Lew Ayres is really a fathead. He and his sidekick Burgess Meredith want to take a slow boat to Vladivostok and live and study in Russia.
By 1938 only the most hardened Stalinist would want to go there. When the play was running on Broadway the purge trials were getting started. When the film was released they were in high gear. Very few believed the babble defense the Daily Worker had of them.
There are some funny scenes and Burgess Meredith steals all scenes he's in with some outrageous overacting. On Broadway his part was played by a young Jose Ferrer.
The film has a few good laughs many with Burgess Meredith.
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- WissenswertesSpring Madness (1938) is an American romantic comedy film based on the play of the same title by Philip Barry. It was directed by S. Sylvan Simon for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and stars Maureen O'Sullivan, Lew Ayres, Ruth Hussey and Burgess Meredith.
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Kate 'Katie' McKim: And what is man but woman's last domesticated animal?!
- VerbindungenReferenced in Lucky Night (1939)
- SoundtracksBelieve Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
(1808) (uncredited)
Music traditional
Lyrics by Thomas Moore (1808)
In the score during the opening credits
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