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Holy Matrimony (1943)
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27 August 1943 (USA) morePlot:
From Arnold Bennett's novel "Buried Alive". An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Nominated for Oscar. moreUser Comments:
Sheer delight - totally original film comedy, veddy English - a gem moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Monty Woolley | ... | Priam Farrell |
| Gracie Fields | ... | Alice Chalice |
| Laird Cregar | ... | Clive Oxford |
| Una O'Connor | ... | Sarah Leek |
| Alan Mowbray | ... | Mr. Pennington |
| Melville Cooper | ... | Dr. Caswell |
| Franklin Pangborn | ... | Duncan Farll |
| Ethel Griffies | ... | Lady Vale |
| Eric Blore | ... | Henry Leek |
| George Zucco | ... | Mr. Crepitude |
| Fritz Feld | ... | Critic |
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This is one of those sheer delights that get overlooked and then rediscovered to one's great joy. It is charmingly written, directed and acted and So Veddy British in its outlook. A famous painter whom no one has ever seen due to his hatred of publicity returns to England from his jungle home to be knighted. His servant dies of pneumonia and the examining doctor mistakes him for the painter and the painter for the servant. This rather delights the painter, irascibly played by Monty Woolley. Complications arise when it seems his man did not tell him entirely about the life he has decided to subsume, including having arranged through a marriage brokerage to find a wife (no nonsense and take charge performance by Gracie Fields) as well as the fact that he is already married (Una O'Connor) with a bevy of grown sons. Suffice to say Woolley marries Fields and continues painting under his assumed identity, but complications arise when paintings being sold as originals are proved to have been painted after the supposed death of the artist and when former wife sues for bigamy. This screenplay adaptation deserved and earned an Oscar nom. The cinematography also deserved a nod. Seek it out if you can find it and prepare to be utterly charmed. Highly recommended.