MovieChat Forums > Over 21 (1945) Discussion > i adore irene dunne but

i adore irene dunne but


i adore irene dunne but i must confess i didnt quite appreciate over 21. i didnt dislike it but this film wasnt as amusing to me as awful truth and my favourite wife and other comedies she was in. perhaps i must give this film another chance by viewing it again? any one else feel the same or differently?

cheers!

reply

is "over 21" ever on TV?

reply


It was on TCM today in the early morning hours. I agree it's not very good. A funnier movie was the one with Tom Ewell and Sheree North when she was the officer and he was the husband living on the base trying to get her to quit the military so they could go home. It was called "The Lieutenant Wore Skirts" (1956).




reply

It was interesting to me that any hint of the idea of isolationism was called poison. This is very definitely a propoganda movie to keep everyone believing in the war effort. That is completely understandable in a movie made then but in reality there were many shades of opinion about the war and what would happen after it. Predicting nations would go at each other after WWII as they had after WWI wasn't far fetched and in fact came true. While we got the UN we also got the Cold War. That shows that nuanced views of the future were far more accurate and insightful. In fact, even a cursory examination of what our Communist allies were doing would give anyone pause by 1945.

I enjoyed the WWII ending which would have been totally different after the war when the propoganda was that women should be in the home not the workplace. That was to give the returning men back their jobs and not incidentally create the kind of nation that was imagined to be preferable to anything they had known before--suburbs, nuclear families, mobility, consumerism. Hollywood is a powerful force for societal conformity.

reply