Complete credited cast: | |||
Lana Turner | ... | Peggy Evans aka Carol Burden | |
Robert Young | ... | Bob Stuart | |
Walter Brennan | ... | Cornelius Burden | |
May Whitty | ... | Baba (as Dame May Whitty) | |
Eugene Pallette | ... | Durstin | |
Alan Mowbray | ... | English Gentleman | |
Florence Bates | ... | Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke | |
Howard Freeman | ... | Mr. Quill | |
Millard Mitchell | ... | Baldwin | |
Ward Bond | ... | Jimmy | |
Pamela Blake | ... | Mitzi | |
Ray Collins | ... | Snodgrass | |
Paul Stanton | ... | Stanhope | |
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O.K. Ford | ... | Music Lover |
Peggy is 21 and bored. She has just been awarded a certificate for starting work on time for 1000 days. She decides that she needs a change so she leaves a note, which is taken to be suicidal, and heads for New York where she gets a make over. A new outfit, a new look and an freak accident gets her in the paper as a amnesia victim, just because she does not want to be Peggy Evans any more. The paper thinks she may be an heiress so she searches for a few clues from back issues of the paper and finds that Carol Burden was never found. Cornelius Burden, however, has sent dozens of frauds to jail already and she must trick him and Baba to keep out of jail. Next, she must stop her old manager, Bob Stuart, from spilling the beans about her. Written by Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Soda-jerk Lana Turner (Peggy) wins $2.50 for punctual attendance over 1,000 consecutive days and she has the privilege of spending this gift within the store that she works for. What a lucky break! She is horrified at this pointless achievement and so quits for better things. Quote right, Lana. What she does next is pretty dodgy, though. Watch and find out in this romantic comedy which also stars Robert Young (Bob) as the man pursuing her in more ways than one.
This film has a good cast with Turner very good in the lead role. I wasn't too keen on Young, he's a bit drippy in this but he does get some amusing dialogue. Turner gets some clever scenes, eg, serving customers whilst blindfolded and when she is given a test to identify a treasured toy in a roomful of options. Her logic can't be faulted. She is both strong, calculatingly clever and funny in this film and she looks just like Marilyn Monroe. I wonder if Monroe copied her look? There is a convincing supporting cast although the story is based on a pretty dodgy idea! Doesn't matter, it's all fantasy. And it leaves the viewer feeling happy.