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La blonde framboise

Original title: The Strawberry Blonde
  • 1941
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
4.6K
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James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland in La blonde framboise (1941)
Quick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.
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Quick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.Quick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.Quick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.

  • Director
    • Raoul Walsh
  • Writers
    • Julius J. Epstein
    • James Hagan
  • Stars
    • James Cagney
    • Olivia de Havilland
    • Rita Hayworth
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  • IMDb RATING
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    4.6K
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    • Director
      • Raoul Walsh
    • Writers
      • Julius J. Epstein
      • James Hagan
    • Stars
      • James Cagney
      • Olivia de Havilland
      • Rita Hayworth
    • 55User reviews
    • 46Critic reviews
    • 86Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 3 wins & 1 nomination total

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    James Cagney
    James Cagney
    • Biff Grimes
    Olivia de Havilland
    Olivia de Havilland
    • Amy Lind
    Rita Hayworth
    Rita Hayworth
    • Virginia Brush
    Alan Hale
    Alan Hale
    • Old Man Grimes
    Jack Carson
    Jack Carson
    • Hugo Barnstead
    George Tobias
    George Tobias
    • Nicholas Pappalas
    Una O'Connor
    Una O'Connor
    • Mrs. Mulcahey
    George Reeves
    George Reeves
    • Harold
    Lucile Fairbanks
    Lucile Fairbanks
    • Harold's Girl Friend
    Edward McNamara
    • Big Joe
    Helen Lynd
    Helen Lynd
    • Josephine
    Herbert Heywood
    • Toby
    Herbert Anderson
    Herbert Anderson
    • Girl-Chaser in Park
    • (uncredited)
    Peter Ashley
    • Young Man
    • (uncredited)
    Paul Barrett
    • Bit Part
    • (uncredited)
    Wade Boteler
    Wade Boteler
    • Warden
    • (uncredited)
    George Campeau
    • Sailor
    • (uncredited)
    Lucia Carroll
    Lucia Carroll
    • Nurse
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Raoul Walsh
    • Writers
      • Julius J. Epstein
      • James Hagan
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    10louis-king

    Nostalgic, Bittersweet Fun

    Cagney departs from his tough, street smart persona to play the gullible, not so tough Biff Grimes. Notice how he loses fight after fight; in one scene he's a barroom bouncer tossing his drunken father out asking his father not to put up too much of a fight "I'm supposed to be a tough guy".

    He gets suckered time after time by Hugo and Virginia. That wouldn't have happened to other Cagney characters! His best scenes are with Olivia DeHavilland. What chemistry. Sometimes no dialog, just glances.

    The main characters play off each other phenomenally. Even the minor characters are superb. Who was that fat German who blew beer foam into Cagney's face? He was great! The period music is so woven into the story that the movie almost becomes a musical. The lovely theme that's played whenever Olivia DeHavilland come into the scene is "When You Were Sweet Sixteen". Unlike the title song "Strawberry Blonde", it's never sung in the movie but it was popular at the turn of the century. Perry Como made it one of his hits in the early 1940's.

    The movie is such a nostalgic, funny, (sad at times) look back at the turn of the century that you wish you could go back there with them.

    It's amazing that director Raoul Walsh also made the brilliant, violent, cynical "White Heat" with nary a sentimental, lovable character.
    8Drewy

    A witty comedy that stands the test of time

    Julius Epstein (the man who gave us Arsenic and Old Lace) excels with his adaptation of James Hagan's play One Sunday Afternoon. (For those who think the credit belongs with the playwright not the scriptwriter, I refer you to the 1948 remake One Sunday Afternoon.) The script is crisp and witty, one liners abound, and I found myself laughing out loud often.

    The film gains its strength from the morals of a bygone era, as men and women struggle to find love without overstepping the bounds of decency. Yet it holds up well more than 60 years after it was made. The themes of love and happiness are timeless.

    Cagney is excellent as jailbird-turned-dentist Biff Grimes. His famed tough guy persona bubbles not very far below the surface but we are reminded that this actor is much more multi-faceted than history sometimes remembers him.

    The female cast members are outstanding. The beautiful Susan Hayworth plays the title character Virginia Brush superbly, showing every nuance of the shallow yet ultimately dissatisfied wannabe socialite. Her best friend, Ann Lind, provides a great showcase for Olivia de Havilland's talent, moving from the brash, forward suffragette to the devoted wife, showing her vulnerability as well as her strength along the way.

    Some of Hollwood's fine character actors get a chance to impress too. The hard-working Jack Carson impresses as Hugo Barnstead, the charming womanizer turned sleazy tycoon. George Tobias has plenty of scene-stealing moments as Grimes' good friend, Nick the barber. (Look closely and you may recognize him as Bewitched's Abner Kravitz.) Alan Hale is at his best as Grimes' irrepressible Irish father. Keep your eye out for TV's Superman George Reeves as Harold, the Yale student neighbour.

    This film provides an amusing reminder that beauty and wealth do not always bring happiness.

    Enjoy Strawberry Blonde. I did.
    Doylenf

    Sparkling comedy with top-notch Cagney-De Havilland-Hayworth performances...

    Charming turn-of-the-century romantic comedy gives Rita Hayworth her breakthrough role as the flirtatious town siren who gets her comeuppance when she ditches James Cagney for Jack Carson. Her best friend Amy (Olivia de Havilland) marries dentist Biff (Cagney) after an unusual courtship which provides some amusing scenes between the outspoken miss and her boyfriend. The plot thickens when Cagney's best friend Hugo (Jack Carson) uses him in a shady business scheme that leaves Cagney taking the blame and serving time in prison. He resolves to get even with Hugo one day--and gets his chance when Hayworth brings Hugo to his dental office to have a tooth pulled. It's all done with a light touch and played to the hilt by an engaging cast. Rita shines in the title role but it is Olivia de Havilland who really walks off with the film as Cagney's sweetheart. Time magazine reported that she stole the film from both of them with her "electric winks". Only flaw is the occasional emphasis on comedy scenes with Alan Hale (as Cagney's father) that tend to drag. George Tobias has a good supporting role, as does George Reeves ("Superman") who appears at the beginning and end of the story as Cagney's belligerent neighbor. Cagney is his usual blustery self but shows a nice flair for comedy. Entertaining and a great film to watch on a rainy afternoon.

    Trivia note: Compare this with the musical remake Raoul Walsh directed in '48 called ONE Sunday AFTERNOON with Dennis Morgan, Dorothy Malone and Janis Paige in the three central roles. Painfully bad and painfully dull with terrible songs and lackluster work by Morgan as Biff Grimes.
    8lpersons-2

    A Feel Good Movie

    Music, Music music.....costumes...what a delightful old movie... Go back in time to an easier period. When you could take your best girl out on the town for $2.50. This movie just makes you long for the old, old days..when life was so much easier. Very little serious matter in the movie. Lot's of lessons to learn to. The beautiful package, the elusive girl, the importance of life. By todays standards this would be an extremely low budget film, yet it captures you and you leave the movie feeling better for watching it. Great cast with James Cagney, Olivia DeHavilland, Rita Haywood, Jack Carter who bring the movie to life. Not a great movie, but one worth seeing just to look back in time and enjoy.
    8AlsExGal

    A departure from Cagney's earlier gangster roles

    Almost all of Cagney's early roles were that of a gangster or a fast-talking con-man. Starting in the 40's as the major studios ramped up their production of patriotic films in anticipation of war, Cagney starred in some military roles such as "The Fighting 69th" and "Captains of the Clouds". However, it was still the same old wise-cracking gangster or con-man - he was just in uniform. Don't get me wrong, I never get tired watching Cagney play these kinds of parts, but I've read that the typecasting was a source of friction between himself and Warner Brothers.

    This film is a real departure from the kind of role that Cagney had grown tired of by 1934. In it he plays Biff Grimes, a dentist at the beginning of the 20th century. Biff has had a series of misfortunes heaped upon him throughout his life. To begin with his Dad (Alan Hale) is a ne'er-do-well, and he has a "friend" Hugo F. Barnstead (Jack Carson) who is always managing to get the best of him and then some. Hugo works up from small slights such as not paying back money or leaving Biff with the tab to stealing and marrying Biff's ideal girl and finally setting Biff up to take the fall in some substandard work Hugo's company has done for the city. After Biff gets out of prison after serving time for a crime he didn't commit, he has a chance to get even with Hugo -as in killing him - and make it look like an accident. Since most of the movie is told in flashback, and Cagney is playing a likable if somewhat gullible fellow who has been deeply wronged, you don't know how it will end or what he will do. The supporting cast is great in this one. Jack Carson was always playing the slippery type in Warner films around this time, and he does the job of playing Hugo with believable gusto, always making excuses for his part in Biff's predicaments. Rita Hayworth is cast as "the strawberry blonde" that Biff loses to Hugo, and Olivia De Havilland plays the girl Biff ultimately marries. She turns out to the one piece of good luck that Biff has as she is tough and loyal in a crisis.

    A bittersweet romantic comedy, this is one of my favorite post-code Cagney films.

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    • Trivia
      For a brief few seconds, Rita Hayworth is heard singing in her own voice. This is believed to be the only time in a film when this happens.
    • Goofs
      The skins of the bananas that Biff eats disappear from under the bench when he and Virginia stand up.
    • Quotes

      Amy Lind: You're not a very easy person to get to know, Mr. Grimes.

      Biff Grimes: Well, that's the kind of a hairpin I am.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh (1973)
    • Soundtracks
      The Band Played On
      (1895) (uncredited)

      Music by Chas. B. Ward

      Lyrics by John F. Palmer

      Played and sung often throughout the film

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    • Release date
      • April 3, 1967 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Strawberry Blonde
    • Filming locations
      • Stage 22, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros.
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 39m(99 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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