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This space 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 glorious hard to gather or stare unless you have Turner Classic Movies, which has had access to the “Columbia B’s” since 2007. In fact, that’s the contrivance I was able to glimpse two of the four.
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“Too Many Husbands” - directed by Wesley Ruggles - is reminiscent of “My Approved Wife”, except this time it is the husband that was shipwrecked and presumed wearisome. 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 Celebrated 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 erroneous 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 unbiased the change of drag he is looking for. The predicament is they are not married and they are required to part 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 fine 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 just 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 distinguished anonymous except Percy Kilbride as a consider, doing a handsome job as always.
There is also a 1946 Columbia short included entitled “Ain’t Cherish 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, judge this an extra feature.
The prints I saw of these looked glorious marvelous when they were aired, so I engage the quality will be fine on this DVD position too. You have to be careful with Sony. Sometimes they save out a sizable quality place like with the Three Stooges sets and the Cary Grant boxed status, and sometimes their DVDs contemplate 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 good 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 gain 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 huge sister of lovely Eileen earned Russell her first (of four) Oscar nominations. Not until Auntie Mame would she again touch such comedic heights. If you be pleased 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 status. A very brief film, even for the age of double features, the film premiered as an ‘A’ at Christmas in 1935 and won qualified notices. A classic thirties Cinderella narrative, with Arthur as struggling shop girl, the film’s delights are nicely divided between the irrepressibly stunning Arthur, and the rest of a minute and radiant cast. Herbert Marshall plays an automobile tycoon, who meets and his charmed by the fair Jean while cooling his heels in the park following an argument with his board of directors. Intriqued by the penniless Arthur’s determination to accumulate a job, he keeps his beget spot a secret, and when she mistakes him for a fellow down and out, he goes along. The only possible job offering Arthur can score calls for a couple, a cook and butler, and when Marshall decides to note along of course things go from there. The too often stolid Marshall plays with distinguished of the liveliness of in his earlier enjoyable work in Lubitsch’s “Distress in Paradise” - one of the most stylish films ever made - Exertion 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 set of cook is as light as a souffle. Impressed with Arthur’s gastronomic reserve with garlic, he immediately hires the ‘couple’ to be his current cook/maid and butler, and the two strangers suddenly accumulate themselves shacked up together in a exiguous 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 gargantuan lines with absolute perfection. a fantastic allotment, superbly played! The romance between Arthur and Marshall’s characters sputters here and there as the location creaks it draw 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 worthy script by Preston Sturges, “Easy Living”. Easy Living (Universal Cinema Classics)
Having said nice things about these two films I’ll steal 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 assume this site for these two films!
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