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This state includes four films:
If You Could Only Cook (1935),
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Too Many Husbands (1940),
My Sister Eileen (1942),
She Wouldn’t Say Yes (1945)
All of these were made after the pre-code era ended, and they’re lovely hard to obtain or peer unless you have Turner Classic Movies, which has had access to the “Columbia B’s” since 2007. In fact, that’s the method I was able to examine two of the four.
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“Too Many Husbands” – directed by Wesley Ruggles – is reminiscent of “My Current Wife”, except this time it is the husband that was shipwrecked and presumed insensible. Jean Arthur is the wife, Fred McMurray plays husband number one, and Melvyn Douglas plays husband number two. Another departure is that here the wife has been remarried for a year versus “My Well-liked Wife” where the second marriage has barely started.
“If You Could Only Cook” has Herbert Marshall playing an automobile executive who is bored with his life. While sitting on a park bench one day he is wrong by a cook as one of the many unemployed. She wants to apply for a different job, but that job require a cook/butler husband/wife team. She asks Marshall’s character to apply for the job with her and pose as her husband. He decides this is objective the change of scuttle he is looking for. The plight is they are not married and they are required to section a room with one double bed.
“My Sister Eileen” stars Rosalind Russell as an aspiring writer who moves from Ohio to Unusual York to pursue her dream. She takes along her younger and very blooming sister, and the two wind up sharing a basement apartment where they are subjected to a parade of the friends and clients of ex-tenants and a less than unbiased landlord. If you liked Rosalind in her other screwball comedy roles you’ll like this film.
“She Wouldn’t Say Yes” also stars Rosalind Russell and is probably the least of the lot. Russell plays an army psychiatrist in this one and – if memory serves me correctly – she keeps denying that shell shock even exists. The rest of the cast is graceful worthy anonymous except Percy Kilbride as a mediate, doing a graceful job as always.
There is also a 1946 Columbia short included entitled “Ain’t Care For Cuckoo” directed by Jules White, who directed all of the Columbia shorts in the 1940′s, including those of the Three Stooges. You may, or may not, think this an extra feature.
The prints I saw of these looked lovely fine when they were aired, so I rob the quality will be superb on this DVD station too. You have to be careful with Sony. Sometimes they do out a broad quality station like with the Three Stooges sets and the Cary Grant boxed space, and sometimes their DVDs sight like VHS transfers.
In my earlier review of the color musical remake of “My Sister Eileen” My Sister Eileen I discussed at some length the many obedient charms of the (then) unavailable Rosalind Russell version of “My Sister Eileen”, and complained of its absence from DVD. Well at last the outstanding 1942 “My Sister Eileen” with Rosalind Russell in absolute top fabricate is available on DVD. Following sensational roles in 1939′s “The Women”, and 1940′s “His Girl Friday”, Russell’s hilarious performance as the no-nonsense astronomical sister of shapely Eileen earned Russell her first (of four) Oscar nominations. Not until Auntie Mame would she again touch such comedic heights. If you indulge in Russell in any of those films you’re in for a treat here.
“If You Could Only Cook”, a 1935 Jean Arthur feature, is the charming runner-up in this four film station. A very brief film, even for the age of double features, the film premiered as an ‘A’ at Christmas in 1935 and won gracious notices. A classic thirties Cinderella anecdote, with Arthur as struggling shop girl, the film’s delights are nicely divided between the irrepressibly stunning Arthur, and the rest of a runt and fair cast. Herbert Marshall plays an automobile tycoon, who meets and his charmed by the dazzling Jean while cooling his heels in the park following an argument with his board of directors. Intriqued by the penniless Arthur’s determination to come by a job, he keeps his enjoy spot a secret, and when she mistakes him for a fellow down and out, he goes along. The only possible job offering Arthur can obtain calls for a couple, a cook and butler, and when Marshall decides to stamp along of course things go from there. The too often stolid Marshall plays with great of the liveliness of in his earlier delicious work in Lubitsch’s “Pains in Paradise” – one of the most stylish films ever made – Distress in Paradise – Criterion Collection.
Stealing scenes are Leo Carrillo, a pig in clover as retired Italian gangster Mike Rossini, who now lives for gourmet food. His auditioning scene for aspiring applicants for the area of cook is as light as a souffle. Impressed with Arthur’s gastronomic reserve with garlic, he immediately hires the ‘couple’ to be his novel cook/maid and butler, and the two strangers suddenly bag themselves shacked up together in a limited servants quarters! Carrillo’s sidekick, “Flash”, a wonderfully cynical and down to earth Lionel Stander, is everything you could ask for in a character actor, and delivers his many broad lines with absolute perfection. a fantastic piece, superbly played! The romance between Arthur and Marshall’s characters sputters here and there as the site creaks it method along, but the film as a whole is quite charming. The wild ending certainly is terrific!
Jean Arthur fans should absolutely not miss an even better one of these somewhat lesser known Arthur films, this time with a gracious script by Preston Sturges, “Easy Living”. Easy Living (Universal Cinema Classics)
Having said nice things about these two films I’ll hold that story advice given to all youngsters about noting saying anything at all if you haven’t anything nice to say and refrain from adding anything about the other two features. Suffice it to say you should consume this station for these two films!
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