Sunday, February 28, 2010

Double Wedding (1937)

★★★★★

Double Wedding is a 1937 film, directed by Richard Thorpe.

Bohemian Charlie Lodge (William Powell) falls in love with the very organized, over-controlling Margit Agnew (Myrna Loy).

To spend time with her, Charlie pretends to be interested in Margit's sister, Irene (Florence Rice) who's become very much infatuated with Charlie after loosing interest in her chicken of a fiancé, Waldo (John Beal). Margit wants her sister to have nothing more to do with Charlie, so he promises to never see Irene again as long as Margit agrees to pose for a portrait he's to paint.

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Friday, February 19, 2010

Love Crazy (1941)

★★★★★

Love Crazy is a 1941 film, directed by Jack Conway.

William Powell and Myrna Loy are Steve and Susan Ireland; a happily married couple whom on their fourth wedding anniversary, experience a night of unfortunate events that leads to their marriage being on the rocks.

Susan, being under the impression that her husband has been spending time with his old flame, is definite about divorce. But Steve is crazy in love with his wife, and does everything he can to delay the divorce and prove it, though this might just get him committed to the sanitarium!

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Friday, February 5, 2010

I Love You Again (1940)

★★★★★

I Love You Again is a 1940 film, Directed by W.S. Van Dyke.

William Powell is Lawrence Wilson, an overly-dull businessman who one night gets a knock to the head that leaves him unconscious. When Larry awakes, not only does he have amnesia, but he is a changed man, literally. For he is George Cary, a conman. And there's more... he's charming and debonair!

When George is under the impression that Larry has a few accounts at the bank filled with coin, he plans to take advantage and cash in. Not long after, George learns that Larry has a wife, Kay (Myrna Loy) who is on the verge of divorcing him. However, when Kay is forced to spend time with her soon to be ex-husband, and all this new affection he shows for her, it begins to get Kay mixed up. If she still loved him, boy, she'd be really in love with him!

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