We're Not Married! (1952)In separate stories, five wedded couples learn that they are not legally married. Director:Edmund Goulding |
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We're Not Married! (1952)In separate stories, five wedded couples learn that they are not legally married. Director:Edmund Goulding |
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| Ginger Rogers | ... |
Ramona Gladwyn
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Fred Allen | ... |
Steven S. 'Steve' Gladwyn
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Victor Moore | ... |
Justice of the Peace Melvin Bush
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| Marilyn Monroe | ... |
Annabel Jones Norris
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| David Wayne | ... |
Jeff Norris
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| Eve Arden | ... |
Katie Woodruff
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| Paul Douglas | ... |
Hector C. Woodruff
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| Eddie Bracken | ... |
Wilson Boswell 'Willie' Fisher
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| Mitzi Gaynor | ... |
Patricia 'Patsy' Reynolds Fisher
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| Louis Calhern | ... |
Frederick C. 'Freddie' Melrose
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| Zsa Zsa Gabor | ... |
Eve Melrose
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| James Gleason | ... |
Duffy
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| Paul Stewart | ... |
Attorney Stone
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| Jane Darwell | ... |
Mrs. Bush
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| Walter Brennan | ... |
Handsome (scenes deleted)
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A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married. Annabel Norris, already Mrs. Mississippi and ready to enter the Mrs. America contest, is now free to enter the Miss Mississippi contest. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
This is another early Marilyn Monroe picture; in this case, it's a compendium of stories involving a handful of marriages presided over by reliable Victor Moore which are discovered to have been illegal because his term of office hadn't yet officially started when the ceremony was performed! So, he's made to send each of these a letter explaining the awkward situation and, according to where they stand at that particular moment in their married life, see how they decide to act upon it. The couples are played by Fred Allen and Ginger Rogers, David Wayne and Marilyn Monroe, Paul Douglas and Eve Arden, Louis Calhern and Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Eddie Bracken and Mitzi Gaynor. The least episode is the one with Douglas and Arden, where the latter becomes suspicious of just what goes on during the former's business trips; the Calhern-Gabor episode is mildly interesting for having her turn out a schemer planning to appropriate her husband's fortune with the help of shyster lawyer Paul Stewart until he's saved by the propitious arrival of Moore's letter!; Wayne has a hard time adjusting because of Monroe's triumph in a "Mrs. Mississippi" contest believing his troubles over when the marriage is revealed to have been null, his 'wife' promptly enrolls in a "Miss Mississippi" competition (which, naturally, she wins); Bracken is a soldier who goes AWOL in order to consolidate his wedding vows when it transpires that his child (whose birth is imminent) may be declared illegitimate Lee Marvin appears briefly as Bracken's buddy in this, one of the two most satisfying episodes; the other is the one featuring constantly-bickering pair Rogers and Allen, which unbearable situation threatens to sink their early-morning radio show (where they're ironically billed as the ideal married couple)! Again, the film is handled with utmost professionalism and is undeniably entertaining while it's on but which now feels dated and undistinguished.