I guess it's somewhat fortunate that I recently watched Woody Allen's Radio Days because Second Honeymoon seemed to be about just the kind of people that his family used, his mother especially, used to listen to on the radio. These people who go to glamorous nightclubs and never seem to worry about where the money is, the kind of people during the Depression everyone would fantasize about.
Loretta Young seems to have gotten off the fantasy trip. She was married for awhile to Tyrone Power who is a Thirties type playboy who normally would be found over at MGM played by Robert Montgomery or Franchot Tone. But life was too much of an adventure with the irresponsible Power, so she got rid of him and married reliable old and dull Lyle Talbot.
Now when Power and Young meet up again quite accidentally at a resort vacation if you're any kind of movie fan you KNOW they'll be back together. Curious that Talbot's very reliability, the kind of man most in the Thirties in real life would have liked to have as provider is just dismissed here. Of course Talbot's given a roving eye himself so he's not made a sympathetic figure.
I thought of Radio Days and the parents who when it is reported that Power's renewed interest in Young is reported in Walter Winchell's column that they would be listening to Winchell and hanging on every word of gossip he had about the beautiful people.
No doubt about it though, Power and Young were certainly beautiful people back in the day. Second Honeymoon though is a fluff kind of fantasy comedy that would never fly today, I'm not sure how well it got off the ground in 1937.
Loretta Young seems to have gotten off the fantasy trip. She was married for awhile to Tyrone Power who is a Thirties type playboy who normally would be found over at MGM played by Robert Montgomery or Franchot Tone. But life was too much of an adventure with the irresponsible Power, so she got rid of him and married reliable old and dull Lyle Talbot.
Now when Power and Young meet up again quite accidentally at a resort vacation if you're any kind of movie fan you KNOW they'll be back together. Curious that Talbot's very reliability, the kind of man most in the Thirties in real life would have liked to have as provider is just dismissed here. Of course Talbot's given a roving eye himself so he's not made a sympathetic figure.
I thought of Radio Days and the parents who when it is reported that Power's renewed interest in Young is reported in Walter Winchell's column that they would be listening to Winchell and hanging on every word of gossip he had about the beautiful people.
No doubt about it though, Power and Young were certainly beautiful people back in the day. Second Honeymoon though is a fluff kind of fantasy comedy that would never fly today, I'm not sure how well it got off the ground in 1937.