Always with someone else
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Always with someone else |
| Original title | What a way to go! |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | J. Lee Thompson |
| script |
Betty Comden Adolph Green |
| production | Arthur P. Jacobs |
| music | Nelson Riddle |
| camera | Leon Shamroy |
| cut | Marjorie Fowler |
| occupation | |
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Always With Another is a 1964 American comedy film.
action
The young rich widow Louisa May wants to get rid of her fortune and therefore donate $ 210 million to the state. This leads to her being transferred to psychiatric treatment. Here Dr. Stephanson treats and she tells him about her life.
Louisa May grew up poor in a small town in Ohio . Her mother wants her to marry rich and is delighted when the richest bachelor in town goes out to help her. However, Louisa May wants a simple life and is not interested in Leonard Crawley. Instead, she falls in love with the silliest man in town. Edgar Hopper tries to live by the principles of Henry Thoreau . This fits the young lady very well into the concept. Edgar promises her never to try to achieve anything. They get married and when the jealous Leonard Crawley makes fun of the couple who live in simplicity, Edgar's ambition grows. He developed a department store giant from his junk shop. When he manages to destroy Crawley with his department store, he dies of overwork. The young widow is suddenly a millionaire without having wanted to.
Louisa May then goes to Paris , where she falls in love with the painter Larry Flint. Flint finds nothing more repulsive than American capitalism. Louisa thinks she has finally found a partner who is not after money. At first nobody wants to buy their pictures. But when, with the help of Louisa, his paintings made by mechanical devices suddenly become successful, Larry also moves away from her and perishes in it. Louisa inherits millions more.
Feeling guilty, Louisa leaves Paris and meets the maple syrup millionaire Rod Anderson Jr. at the airport, who did not earn his fortune, but inherited it. This gives her hope, as she believes that he no longer needs to chase the money. After the wedding, they only spend their time at parties and are happy. However, when Anderson realizes that without his decisions his wealth has tripled, he sets out to look for the culprit in his corporate empire. However, Louisa realizes soon enough that Rod, too, longs for a simple life and can persuade him to sell all of his companies and to settle down as a farmer. But even as a farmer, Rod does not escape his fate. He is killed when he tries to milk a cow, but meets a bull in the process. Louise inherits another 150 million.
Louisa now never wants to marry again because she believes that her husbands will be bad luck. In a bar she meets the singer and dancer Pinky Benson. He appears in a cheap bar in a clown costume. He has no ambition and is hardly noticed by the audience. She falls in love with him and remarries. You live happily on a rundown houseboat. As Pinky's birthday Louisa throws a party for him. Due to lack of time, she persuades the owner of the restaurant that Pinky can appear without a clown costume and lo and behold, suddenly he is successful and people are listening to him. He then started a dream career on Broadway and eventually became a successful Hollywood star . At a film premiere he is trampled to death by the horde of waiting fans and Louisa is again a widow and again a few million richer. To put an end to this unhappy life, she wants to give the millions to the state. Her psychiatrist tries to convince her not to do this and to marry him instead. He would like to sacrifice himself. However, she refuses because she is not in love with him. Instead, she meets the meanwhile run-down Leonard Crawley, who came across the theories of Henry Thoreau through Edgar Hopper and is happy with his life as a cleaning assistant. They get married and have a happy family with four children.
background
The film is the first production by Arthur P. Jacobs, who previously ran a successful PR agency in Los Angeles . Gene Kelly persuaded him to produce this film. The film then turned into a one-woman show by Shirley MacLaine, who starred in almost every scene in the film and was able to show the full range of her talent. The happy times of their respective marriages were depicted through pastiche on different film styles. Her first marriage to Edgar Hopper old-style silent films , the second marriage to Larry Flint in the style of the intellectual French film, her third marriage with the millionaire Rod Anderson in the style of the 1930s, features films and their marriage with the dancer Pinky in the style of the great Hollywood Musical revues. Shirley MacLaine also received a large number of costumes designed by Edith Head . She also got 72 different hairstyles.
Reviews
- Lexicon of International Films : Amusing Comedy.
Awards
The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1965 in the categories of Best Production Design and Best Costumes .