Over 21 (1945)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Charles Vidor

Writers:

Sidney Buchman (writer)
Ruth Gordon (play)

Release Date:

8 August 1945 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.

Plot Keywords:

Army | Refrigerator | Newspaper Editor | 39 Year Old | New York City

Cast

Irene Dunne	...	Paula 'Polly' Wharton
Alexander Knox	...	Max W. Wharton
Charles Coburn	...	Robert Drexel Gow
Jeff Donnell	...	Jan Lupton
Loren Tindall	...	Lt. Roy Lupton
Lee Patrick	...	Mrs. Foley
Phil Brown	...	Frank MacDougal
Cora Witherspoon	...	Mrs. Gates
Charles Evans	...	Colonel Foley

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Certification:

Sweden:Btl

Company:

Sidney Buchman Enterprises

Trivia:

The original Broadway play opened on January 3, 1944 with Ruth Gordon in the lead.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When Polly (Irene Dunne) is writing columns for Max (Alexander Knox) while he's busy attending classes and studying, one of the columns has a typo in the title - "Victory is What You You Make It."

Quotes:

[first lines]
Robert Drexel Gow: My editor! My paper! And this is how he tells me!

Uplifting and Engaging Movie

A light, uplifting and engaging movie. Watching Irene Dunne is a delight! As you watch her, she ceases to be Irene Dunne and becomes in every way Paula Wharton.

I have enjoyed Irene Dunne in every movie that I have seen and that would be nearly all of them. What a shame that most of her movies need restoration so badly. I do hope Irene Dunne movie are restored before it is too late they are such treasures Thank goodness this is not the case with Over 21.

It is a must see if you like superb acting and witty comedy with serious overtones. I agree with a previous comment on the speech "The World and Apple Pie" it was one of the many highlights of the movie. I read somewhere that Irene Dunne helped in writing that speech along with Director Vidor (Irene Dunne was a very good and charitable person in private life) and it certainly seems to show through in her movies!