Olivia de Havilland is the princess of an unnamed country who lives in New York with her uncle (Charles Colbrun with a monocle). Her uncle, who likes to pester her about how her job is "Make babies! You royal!", decides that she must go on holiday, and so she does. There is an amusing sequence where she repeatedly asks various members of the flight crew for sleeping pills, due to the fact that she is unable to fall asleep with all the turbulence of the plane, but why her character wouldn't realize that taking too many sleeping pills might run the risk of her never waking up (they're often used as suicide tools, Olivia)...I don't know. Let's say she led a very sheltered life- but the plane ends up turning around, so she's left to deal with the aftereffects of those darn sleeping pills!
Olivia then gets looked after by the pilot (Robert Cummings) of the plane, Edward O'Rourke, who tries to find who she is and where she comes from, and doesn't yet succeed. He drops her off with his friends, a married couple played by Jack Carson and Jane Wyman- a year before The Doughgirls 🙂. When Olivia wakes up, she finds that she's in someone else's house, wearing their eight-foot tall adolescent teenager's pajamas (why did they always do that in 40s comedy? Have the woman wake up at someone else's house wearing really big pajamas? It bothers me.)
She becomes a part of the group, she discovers that she loves Edward, she tells him she can't marry him even though she wants to, Edward thinks she's the mistress of someone else after he discovers that her uncle paid her plane ticket (he doesn't know that he's her uncle), her uncle says that it's okay for her to marry him after he finds out that he's from a family with a lot of boys. Boys good for royal family.
Unfortunately, Edward doesn't know that she's a princess, but he finds out? Will Olivia abdicate from the throne, or will Edward become Prince Consort O'Rourke? Don't worry- it's a wartime propaganda flick, so all ends triumphantly. Also because this is a wartime flick, there's a scene where Olivia decides to join up a sort of Girl Scouts for housewives sort of thing, and ends up being a CPR dummy because she can't cook, or clean, or sew (I actually found this bit by far the funniest scene). All in the course of three days. 🤔
Olivia de Havilland is quite good in her role- she wasn't very suited to comedy, but she isn't given much to do here anyway. She's very pretty, if you like that sort of look, but quite average. Perhaps it's the fact that her character is rather static, and apart from falling in love, she doesn't really change. Robert Cummings is mediocre as the love interest, but he has alright chemistry with Olivia.
Always fun to see Jack Carson and Jane Wyman as a couple (again)- she's blonde here, but I recognized her. Part of me wished that they had more scenes together, but I'll just have to satisfy my cravings by watching The Doughgirls again (😁). The film's pacing is weird, first half of the film flying by and then the second half just dragging on and on a n d o n. Most of the jokes have been used before, and better, in other films. But it isn't the worst film you'll ever watch- just slightly disappointing. Still gets an above average rating, though, because I have liked the stars in quite a few other films.
Olivia then gets looked after by the pilot (Robert Cummings) of the plane, Edward O'Rourke, who tries to find who she is and where she comes from, and doesn't yet succeed. He drops her off with his friends, a married couple played by Jack Carson and Jane Wyman- a year before The Doughgirls 🙂. When Olivia wakes up, she finds that she's in someone else's house, wearing their eight-foot tall adolescent teenager's pajamas (why did they always do that in 40s comedy? Have the woman wake up at someone else's house wearing really big pajamas? It bothers me.)
She becomes a part of the group, she discovers that she loves Edward, she tells him she can't marry him even though she wants to, Edward thinks she's the mistress of someone else after he discovers that her uncle paid her plane ticket (he doesn't know that he's her uncle), her uncle says that it's okay for her to marry him after he finds out that he's from a family with a lot of boys. Boys good for royal family.
Unfortunately, Edward doesn't know that she's a princess, but he finds out? Will Olivia abdicate from the throne, or will Edward become Prince Consort O'Rourke? Don't worry- it's a wartime propaganda flick, so all ends triumphantly. Also because this is a wartime flick, there's a scene where Olivia decides to join up a sort of Girl Scouts for housewives sort of thing, and ends up being a CPR dummy because she can't cook, or clean, or sew (I actually found this bit by far the funniest scene). All in the course of three days. 🤔
Olivia de Havilland is quite good in her role- she wasn't very suited to comedy, but she isn't given much to do here anyway. She's very pretty, if you like that sort of look, but quite average. Perhaps it's the fact that her character is rather static, and apart from falling in love, she doesn't really change. Robert Cummings is mediocre as the love interest, but he has alright chemistry with Olivia.
Always fun to see Jack Carson and Jane Wyman as a couple (again)- she's blonde here, but I recognized her. Part of me wished that they had more scenes together, but I'll just have to satisfy my cravings by watching The Doughgirls again (😁). The film's pacing is weird, first half of the film flying by and then the second half just dragging on and on a n d o n. Most of the jokes have been used before, and better, in other films. But it isn't the worst film you'll ever watch- just slightly disappointing. Still gets an above average rating, though, because I have liked the stars in quite a few other films.