A little long in the tooth for Irene Bullock, wouldn't you say?
Carole Lombard was Twenty-Six when she played the role, in fact June Allyson was Eighteen.
Does anyone think it odd that there is a middle-aged Irene Bullock about?
age difference, I felt that Allyson did an excellent job, and was extremely funny in the role. People say why the 'remake', but truth be told I found the first addition just o.k., this version had excellent comedic roles and was quite believable.
shareAgreed. And very funny.
Heck is where people go who don't believe in Gosh.
As I began watching this movie I was confused: June Allyson's character looked like a middle-aged woman, yet her actions, speech and antics were that of a college coed at best. "Quirky" is not a strong enough word to describe her character's lack of sophistication.
Not having seen the original film, I deduced about halfway through this version that lovely June was supposed to be portraying a much younger woman. I think the knock-down, drag-out cat fight with her sister in the front hall helped me decide this, although braids/pigtails would have really sealed the deal.
Fast forward to our fearless heroine chasing after the man she loves. Now I'm even more confused: is the viewer supposed to understand this as a May-December sort of romance (not exactly Lolita but still....) or are Irene and Godfrey truly compatible in the age category (only seven year's difference in reality)?
The clothes and sets were really fun to see but the story was just such a hash of identity crises (Austrian spy? Come on!) that I lost interest. With such a enormously talented cast I was disappointed to say the least by this film.
It's just very strange considering that Allyson was actually just old enough to have played Irene in the 1936 version and was, at the time, only a few years younger than Lombard. The inappropriate ages of the actor and the idiotic sub-plot making Godfrey a mysterious foreigner in the country illegally make this a much inferior remake.
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