The Lady Takes a Sailor

Wyman is fine and Arden does her usual duty, but the rest is an awful mess. The main flaw is very weak plot is all over the place. First we're in Wyman's potentially interesting workplace that, after a big setup, we'll never see again. Then we have the ridiculously stupid underwater tractor where our two leads meet. After that we just have dumb slapstick and unwitty dialogue. The pacing is terrible, nothing makes sense, and there's little chemistry with the love angle. Give it a miss.

This is a very cute classic movie. A woman meets a guy in a very unusual circumstance, however her professional career is on the rocks soon afterwards! I noticed that William Frawley aka Fred Mertz from the "I love Lucy" show makes a quick appearance here. Anyways I would reccomend it for anyone who's into classic movies.

When Jane Dylan is good, she's amazing. She was a wonderful dramatic actress. She also had charm and appeal. Dennis Morgan was a decent actor, as well as handsome and appealing.

Unfortunately, neither of them had a flair for comedy. I mean you really have it or you don't. They also have no chemistry whatsoever.

Usually when this happens they go back and punch up the second lead. It has often been Eve Arden. Unfortunately, her part isn't large enough to save this stink bomb.

"The Lady Takes a Sailor" is a kooky comedy that I wanted to like...but really didn't. Now I am not saying it's a bad film, after all the story idea is highly creative...but overall the film seemed forced and I agree with one reviewer who says it just misses the mark.

Jennifer (Jane Wyman) is out in her sailboat when the weather turns bad. But this is not her major problem...the problem is that her boat was just sunk by an experimental submarine-tank hybrid that was out being tested. When she later tells folks about it, no one believes her and they think she's mentally ill. so, it's up to her to find the guy from the sub (Dennis Morgan) and get pictures of this craft.

This is an interesting idea....so why did the film leave me a bit cold? I think it's a great case where the film tried so hard to be kooky and silly that it seemed to try too hard and felt contrived. Even more contrived was the love that came completely out of the blue at the end....more formulaic than realistic in any way. Not a great film...but the actors try despite indifferent writing.

Just stumbled on this one on TCM. Always been Dennis Morgan fan , but never really knew much about Jane Wyman other than her one time marriage to a future president. They made a really good team in this one. The love ( from his end) and hate ( from her end ) finally tilted toward him. With the always dependable Eve Arden in a supporting role , not much more is needed. But throw in Tom Tully as a private detective with much comic relief, the movie really got going. Not sure I'm buying the Jack Lemmon sighting , but it could just be me. Couldn't find him. Give this one a chance , hoping you'll enjoy it as much as I did.