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E. Parker

posted 18 years ago by sggar00
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What a tremendous actress. I don't think there is not anything she could not do. Light comedies such as her and Reagan in "The Voice Of The Turtle" or serious roles as Mrs. Hannah in "Home From The Hill" - she does it with ease and style. This movie is a delight also, you pull for her and Dennis Morgan throughout the whole film (much like we do in Judy Garland's movie "The Clock"). Just one more reason why these era of films are much better than most of the garbage they make today!

[–] snowflake22046 17 years ago

So true, this is a real good love story, one of the best..May I say Dennis Morgan was a natural and just wish he would have sang one love song to her with his great tenor voice in this movie. Try to catch it on Turner Classics. His 100th birthday will be coming up on the 20th of December, 2008....We Dennis Fans, hope that turner classic shows his movies that day........Snowflake

[–] monet2004 15 years ago

I totally agree. It's very rare I see any of today's movies and when I do, I regret it. The only exception for me are a few Hallmark movies, but other than that, the classics of the golden age cannot be surpassed.

[–] monet2004 15 years ago

I totally agree with you. The era of films of the golden age are the best. I do dislike the garbage they pack in movies today. Nothing but shock value.

I love her and Dennis Morgan together. What a cutie Dennis was by the way!

[–] teaandoranges 14 years ago

Just caught this movie on TCM and fell in love with it like the other posters. A real time capsule of the 1940's. And people who you would love to have as friends especially wonderful Henry Travers. I checked Elanor Parkers bio on IMDB and was glad to see she is still alive (as of today) Was the Dennis Morgan here the same one who used to sing on TV in the late 50s and early 60s?

[–] Gemini730 14 years ago

I first saw this film on TCM a couple of years ago and was thrilled to have a chance to see it again. Dennis Morgan and Eleanor Parker have nice chemistry and make a beautiful, believable couple. Dane Clark was very good as comic relief playing Morgan`s hyper-active, kind-hearted best friend. Henry Travers is wonderful playing a man who feels he is a failure because of his lack of financial and social status but is rich in humanity, a quality much more precious than wealth and success. The film has the Warner Brothers "edge" in that Eleanor Parker`s family is a bit dysfunctunal.
Dennis Morgan had a beautiful tenor voice. I don`t know if he sang on television in the late 50`s and 60`s.
Lorraine

[–] tmaj48 14 years ago

I started watching this on TCM this morning and couldn't stop. It was especially interesting in its portrayal of the family and its prejudices and
tensions. Beulah Bondi, who usually plays the sweet old mother, is pretty
cranky here and is contemptuous of Dennis Morgan's character, and displays
a considerable amount of resentment towards her daughter Jane in particular
(when Parker, as Jane, brings home Morgan for the first time, and nearly
everyone in the family treats him rudely, she blames Jane for inviting him in
the first place). The married daughter, who's been running around on her sailor
husband while he's at sea (a pretty daring subplot for a 1944 film) has the
nerve to look down on Jane and her romance. The brother's a bit of a twit.
Not exactly the idealized, heartwarming family that's usually portrayed in wartime dramas.

The film has other moments that seem surprisingly risque for its time. Besides
the adulterous daughter, the couple spends their first date at a motel. When
the youngest daughter brings home a baby gift for Jane, the mother assumes it's
for herself (the girl's a young teenager). When the mother faints from shock,
the father clumsily tries to revive her and another daughter walks in on them; seeing the father crouched over his wife, she admonishes them for playing, uh,
"leapfrog"! Ha, ha--good old Warner Brothers, always trying to push the envelope.

This film definitely deserves to be on DVD.

I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

[–] teaandoranges 14 years ago

Good post thank you.

[–] Gemini730 14 years ago

Nice review.
Lorraine

[–] ginbelt 10 years ago

The film has other moments that seem surprisingly risque for its time. Besides
the adulterous daughter, the couple spends their first date at a motel.

? I thought it was Cora's apartment -- if you mean that first night out (the night she came back at 3 am and had the confrontation with her mother). Still suggestive, though, at least to the mother character...

[–] oypoodle 14 years ago

I luckily drv'd this movie on Sept 27 and fell in love with it. I've watched it again since but I really wish I could purchase it on dvd so I have a copy forever. What a wonderful romance - I was so proud of the Eleanor Parker character when she finally moved out of the house. :)