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Preston Sturges (original screenplay)
Release Date:
19 January 1940 (USA)
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Tagline:
BARBARA and FRED in 1940's first great love affair ...!
Plot:
Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent...
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Christmas
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Shoplifting
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Canada
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Moral Reformation
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(2 articles)
Universal, TCM Partner To Unearth Unreleased Horror Films
(From shocktillyoudrop. 29 October 2009)
Old Ass Horror Films Being Released for the First Time
(From FilmSchoolRejects. 28 October 2009, 8:55 PM, PDT)
(From shocktillyoudrop. 29 October 2009)
Old Ass Horror Films Being Released for the First Time
(From FilmSchoolRejects. 28 October 2009, 8:55 PM, PDT)
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Pleasant And Touching
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Barbara Stanwyck | ... | Lee Leander | |
| Fred MacMurray | ... | John Sargent | |
| Beulah Bondi | ... | Mrs. Sargent | |
| Elizabeth Patterson | ... | Aunt Emma | |
| Willard Robertson | ... | Francis X. O'Leary | |
| Sterling Holloway | ... | Willie Simms | |
| Charles Waldron | ... | Judge in New York | |
| Paul Guilfoyle | ... | District Attorney | |
| Charles Arnt | ... | Tom (as Charlie Arnt) | |
| John Wray | ... | Hank | |
| Thomas W. Ross | ... | Mr. Emory | |
| Fred 'Snowflake' Toones | ... | Rufus (as Snowflake) | |
| Tom Kennedy | ... | 'Fat' Mike | |
| Georgia Caine | ... | Lee's Mother | |
| Virginia Brissac | ... | Mrs. Emory |
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94 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Filmed July-September 1939, and bears a 1939 copyright statement on the title card, even though it was not actually copyrighted until January 1940.
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Errors in geography: The street sign on the corner of the shop where Stanwyck tries to pawn the stolen bracelet reads "3rd Avenue" and "West 54th Street" in NYC. With 3rd Avenue being east of Fifth Avenue, which divides east from west Manhattan, the street sign should read "East 54th Street."
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Lee Leander:
Now there's nothing as dangerous as a square shooter. If all men were like you there wouldn't be any nice girls left.
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A Perfect Day
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This starts off a little slow but gets good after Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck begin their trip to Indiana.
The movie turns out to be a pretty solid drama and romance with a few very touching scenes. Stanwyck's emotional scene with her mother is memorable. As a whole, to be frank, the film is not that memorable but it has its moments as mentioned above.
On the negative side, here is yet one more classic film in which a man and a woman hardly know each other, but decide to get married!! In Hollywood, all one had to do was go out on one date and marriage would be right around the corner! (so would divorce, unfortunately)
It's also interesting to note these two would be paired in a few more years in one of the most famous films of all time: Double Indemnity. They weren't so nice in that one!