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Director:
Jack Conway
Writers:
Margery Sharp (novel) and
Monckton Hoffe (adaptation)
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Release Date:
8 August 1948 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
English dancehall actress Julia Packett hasn't seen her daughter since Susan was a few months old, having... more | add synopsis
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Garson and Pidgeon sparkle in high comedy change of pace more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Greer Garson ... Julia Packett
Walter Pidgeon ... William Sylvester Packett
Peter Lawford ... Ritchie Lorgan

Elizabeth Taylor ... Susan Packett

Cesar Romero ... Fred Ghenoccio
Lucile Watson ... Mrs. Packett
Nigel Bruce ... Col. Bruce 'Bunny' Willowbrook
Mary Boland ... Mrs. Gheneccio
Reginald Owen ... Benny Hawkins
Henry Stephenson ... Lord Pennystone
Aubrey Mather ... The Vicar
Ian Wolfe ... Hobson, the Butler
Fritz Feld ... Pepito
Phyllis Morris ... Daisy
Veda Ann Borg ... Louise
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Additional Details

Runtime:
99 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Peter Lawford gave Elizabeth Taylor her first on-screen kiss in this movie. more
Goofs:
Continuity: After exiting the right hand drive phaeton/touring car at the honeymoon cabin, the two couples congregate at the right drivers side; the car is facing screen right. The next scene has the caretaker approaching from the right and the two couples are now standing in the exact same positions but on the left passenger side of the car; the car is now facing screen left. more
Quotes:
Fred Ghenoccio: Where's my mother?
Julia Packett: She's in the bar drinking her breakfast!
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Soundtrack:
Instrumental for Guitar more

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Garson and Pidgeon sparkle in high comedy change of pace, 30 August 2007
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Author: Emaisie39 from United States

Greer Garson had a charmed film career. She was discovered on the English stage by Louis B. Mayer when she was 33. Her MGM career stalled until she was cast opposite Robert Donat in the classic "Goodbye Mr. Chips"(1939) which made her an immediate major star and a worthy successor to fading MGM superstars Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Garbo. Her lovely, charismatic performance in this film brought her the first of seven Best Actress Oscar nominations. Truth be told her role was too small for such a nomination and Shearer's and Crawford's superb work in "The Women"(1939) should have gotten the nominations. Garson's next film was the disastrous "Remember"(1939) a glossy flat so-called comedy that had her much too prim and proper. But after Shearer unwisely passed on "Pride and Prejudice"(1940) Garson was cast in the central role and received raves from everyone. In retrospect she seems too old for this and the more youthful-looking classy Shearer would have been much better but this film made Garson an enormous star which she remained until a string of entertaining disasters in the early 50's. Of course Garson would win her Oscar for the excellent blockbuster "Mrs.Miniver (1942) -another dumb Shearer turn-down- and Garson would now be typecast in generally too noble and ladylike roles. Nonetheless Garson gave a sparkling performance opposite Crawford in the forgotten "When Ladies Meet"(1941) and gave marvelous natural performances in the hugely popular yet maligned "Adventure"(1946) and superb in the disastrous "Desire Me"(1947). The comedy "Julia Misbehaves" came right after and proved a tremendous hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Though superficially "the lady" once again this role allows Greer to be the comedienne and she succeeds splendidly. The sparkling script and direction, the MGM gloss, her great chemistry with Pidgeon, and the beautiful young co-stars Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Lawford add to the non-stop fun. She plays a wayward showgirl who wants to be part of her daughter's wedding even though she has not been around for years. It's the kind of light hearted romp that Hollywood tries to do now in days with Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan, Reese Witherspoon and surprisingly Diane Keaton. Of course these recent films rarely work as well as the delightful "Julia Misbehaves." After this Garson returned to the lady roles and had her last big hit with the stodgy technicolored "That Forsythe Woman"(1949). Most of the films that followed were failures except for her outstanding work in "Julius Caesar"(MGM,1953) and Oscar-nominated as Eleanor Roosevelt in "Sunrise at Campobello"(Warner Brothers, 1960).

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