Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaStephen is a shy, quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the opera where she had his seats, and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee ... Leggi tuttoStephen is a shy, quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the opera where she had his seats, and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Stephen is with his fiancée Cecilia, everythin... Leggi tuttoStephen is a shy, quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the opera where she had his seats, and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Stephen is with his fiancée Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for D... Leggi tutto
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This starts with a great Meet Cute. Lucille Ball is doing a lot of funny stuff. It's a great rom-com start for Stephen and Dot. Then Coffee Cup comes in and it turns into something else. For it to be a better love triangle, Coffee Cup needs to be a lesser suitor and Dot can't be fully in love. I certainly don't want Stephen ending up with Cecilia but I don't want Dot to leave Coffee Cup either. Coffee Cup is too good. I really like a lot of funny bits and the three main characters especially Dot with Coffee Cup. The four inches is a weirdly fun unforgettable bit. They just need to recalibrate Coffee Cup to fit the rom-com formula. I also didn't know what a gob is.
The day before she's to start a new job as the secretary of a big shipping firm, Ball and her family which consists of parents George Cleveland and Kathleen Howard and nimble fingered Lloyd Corrigan as her brother decide to go to the opera. They get into a row with Edmond O'Brien and his fiance Marguerite Chapman when they sit at his box at the Met.
The next day Ball reports for work and discovers her new boss is O'Brien and that sets off a row. But soon he rather likes the blue color girl. The problem is she has a blue collar guy in sailor George Murphy on leave from Uncle Sam's Navy and deciding whether he wants another hitch.
The comedy belongs to Ball and Murphy. O'Brien who is a rich but shy business executive serves as a foil primarily. Lloyd puts in a few nice touches including a great car chase that could have come from one of his silent screen classics.
Franklin Pangborn has a couple of scenes as a nervous pet shop owner whom they all seem to run into and put upon. Henry Travers is also featured as O'Brien's uncle and quite the matchmaker.
Curiously enough with one of the protagonists a sailor and the film coming out in March of 1941 not a word about current unpleasantness in the world that the Navy would be getting into before the year was out.
Films like these were putting Lucille Ball on the road to being the queen of comedy.
Lucille is the scatterbrained daughter in a family of zanies who meets EDMOND O'BRIEN in a mix-up over theater tickets. He's a casual, laid back executive, not very assertive (unlike his later roles), and when he needs a substitute secretary Lucy shows up for the job. It's a hectic film from then on.
GEORGE MURPHY is her brash sailor boyfriend, LLOYD CORRIGAN her brother, HENRY TRAVERS her father and the befuddled FRANKLIN PANGBORN is a pet shop owner.
It's a more subdued Lucy than usual with the others having most of the heavy mugging and pratfalls to do. MARGUERITE CHAPMAN is wasted as O'Brien's neglected girlfriend. Nice cast but they all have mediocre material to deal with.
Summing up: Passes the time pleasantly enough, but is nothing special.
O'Brien appears so young and dashing in this film. He plays an upper class businessman who meets and finds love with secretary Ball. Murphy plays her sailor boyfriend. To me, the biggest question in the film was who would Murphy wind up with?
The comedy here is tedious. O'Brien has a snobbish girlfriend with a high society mother to the bargain.
Ball comes from a real common family where the brother finds opera tickets that belong to O'Brien. By the next scene, Ball is going to apply for a job where O'Brien is the owner. How coincidental can we get?
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- QuizFirst film produced by Harold Lloyd in which he did not star.
- BlooperWhen Pop and Pigeon are playing checkers, Pop is winning. Pigeon gets upset and slaps the board, causing it to fold up. In the next shot of the table, the board is lying flat, and the next it's folded up again.
- ConnessioniReferenced in Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter (1991)
- Colonne sonoreOchy Tchornya
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