Cast overview: | |||
Barbara Stanwyck | ... | Sally Warren | |
Robert Cummings | ... | Jeff Warren | |
Diana Lynn | ... | Mary Lou Medford | |
Patric Knowles | ... | Lance Gale | |
Peggy Wood | ... | Grace Apley | |
Robert Benchley | ... | Uncle Todd Warren | |
Willie Best | ... | Joe | |
Natalie Wood | ... | Carol Warren | |
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Gregory Marshall | ... | Johnnie Warren (as Gregory Muradian) |
Mary Young | ... | Janet Doughton |
Rich and beautiful Southern heiress Sally Warren loves horse-racing and running her horse-farm although her husband of seven years hates the four-legged mammals. Spouse Jeff Warren is a successful author, Civil War scholar, and popular lecturer on the ladies club circuit. After Jeff buys aging twelve-year old nag Albert in the mistaken belief that he's a colt, and Sally purchases a desk for her husband in the naive belief that it once belonged to Jefferson Davis, it's obvious that they have few interests in common. The squabbling is complicated by Jeff's jealousy of Sally's relationship with Lance Gale, her childhood friend, neighbor, and fellow horse breeder. Sally in turn becomes enraged when the ubiquitous Mary Lou Medford, a flirtatious literary groupie, becomes omnipresent with her infatuation of Jeff. Although the strains on their relationship lands the couple in divorce court, circumstances and an equine cupid bring them back together again. Written by duke1029@aol.com
I kept thinking about The Philadelphia Story while watching this; the masterful way George Cukor works out the story line with Grant, Hepburn and Stewart all competing for attention. Well, Irving Pichel is no Cukor, and while Stanwyck easily equals Hepburn in comedic skill, Cummings and Knowles don't match Grant and Stewart in ability. Stanwyck and Peggy Wood, playing her mother, supply all the fireworks in this one. Albert the horse does everything but talk, maybe he's the real star.