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7 June 1940 (USA)
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Saint...or Screwball?
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Susan Trexel is a wealthy socialite, who while vacationing in Europe undergoes a religious transformation...
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Crawford near her peak
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(Complete credited cast)| Joan Crawford | ... | Susan Trexel | |
| Fredric March | ... | Barrie Trexel | |
| Ruth Hussey | ... | Charlotte | |
| John Carroll | ... | Clyde Rochester | |
| Rita Hayworth | ... | Leonora Stubbs | |
| Nigel Bruce | ... | Hutchins Stubbs | |
| Bruce Cabot | ... | Michael O'Hara | |
| Rose Hobart | ... | Irene Burroughs | |
| Constance Collier | ... | Lady Millicent Wigstaff | |
| Rita Quigley | ... | Blossom Trexel | |
| Gloria DeHaven | ... | Enid | |
| Richard Crane | ... | Bob Kent (as Richard O. Crane) | |
| Norma Mitchell | ... | Hazel Paige | |
| Marjorie Main | ... | Mary Maloney | |
| Aldrich Bowker | ... | Patrick Maloney |
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The Gay Mrs. Trexel (UK)
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117 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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The play originally opened on 10 April 1937 in Princeton, New Jersey, and moved to New York City, New York on 7 October 1937 where it ran for 288 performances. Gertrude Lawrence played the role of Susan.
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Barrie Trexel:
If Susan's lying in a ditch, you can be sure it's a perfectly good ditch, with hot and cold running water.
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Referenced in Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002) (TV)
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Goodnight, Sweetheart
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This film is an odd one in Joan Crawford's MGM films, but entertaining and well worth viewing for one of Crawford's better, more carefully thought-out performances. Originally purchased for Norma Shearer (who balked at playing the mother of a teenager), this dramatic comedy provides a fine framework for one of Crawford's few successful comedy portrayals. Widely faulted at the time for too closely copying Gertrude Lawrence's stage performance (in the same role), today it is apparent how much originality and commitment Crawford brought to the part of Susan, a flighty upper-crust socialite hell bent on bringing her newfound religious enlightenment to her family and friends, with disastrous results.
Frederick March turns in a fine, delicately shaded performance as Susan's long suffering husband who is driven to drink by her fecklessness. Majorie Main, as Susan's down-to-earth housekeeper, almost steals the film and Rose Hobart gives a brilliant, tense performance as Susan's unhappy best friend.
This is a first rate MGM production of its day, with stunning costumes and brilliant supporting players. This film has often been overlooked by fans and critics alike, but it offers many delights and highlights excellent contributions by George Cukor, the director, and the rest of the MGM production team. The subject (born again religious mania) is, as more than one film critic has noted, rather an odd one for Golden Age Hollywood to have touched on at all, but it is handled with care and Susan, in the end, emerges a wiser, happier woman. No Joan Crawford fan should miss it!