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IX: George Stevens, Penny Serenade (1941)
This is one of those moments when reading strategies become interesting. The classic form of the romantic comedy is one where two characters start out by not liking each other very much, bicker like nobody's business, but eventually realise, yanno. Think Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. Think Grant and Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby. But there's a second type, the comedy of remarriage, in which two characters split up, having decided they dislike each other, they bicker like nobody's business, but eventually realise, yanno. The Awful Truth and My Favorite Wife both follow this pattern. So I assumed the same would be true of the third of the Dunne/Grant collaborations.
This is one of those moments when reading strategies become interesting. The classic form of the romantic comedy is one where two characters start out by not liking each other very much, bicker like nobody's business, but eventually realise, yanno. Think Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. Think Grant and Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby. But there's a second type, the comedy of remarriage, in which two characters split up, having decided they dislike each other, they bicker like nobody's business, but eventually realise, yanno. The Awful Truth and My Favorite Wife both follow this pattern. So I assumed the same would be true of the third of the Dunne/Grant collaborations.
( Was I right? )
Like a number of films this is in the Public Domain, and my DVD was a cheap edition with a very poor transfer. This includes jumps, as well as film stock. It also claims to be Approx. 75 Min. - in fact it comes in at just under two hours.
Totals: 9 [Cinema: 3; DVD: 6; TV: 0]
I have Holiday and Walk, Don't Run next on the Sofa list. Maybe I need a break from Mr Grant and need to watch more Curb Your Enthusiasm first.
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