Come stay with me

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Movie
German title Come stay with me
Original title Come Live with Me
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1941
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Clarence Brown
script Patterson McNutt
production Clarence Brown
music Herbert Stothart
camera George J. Folsey
cut Frank E. Hull
occupation
synchronization

Come Live with Me (Original title: Come Live with Me ) is an American love story from the year 1941. Directed by Clarence Brown are James Stewart and Hedy Lamarr seen in the lead roles. A story by Virginia Van Upp served as a template .

action

The visa of a young woman who, also threatened after the political murder of her father , had to flee to the United States from her Austrian homeland , has expired. Her admirer, the married New York publisher Barton Kendrick, visits her one evening in her apartment. He's hoping for a future together with Johnny Jones, as the woman now calls herself, but an immigration officer also arrives. Johnny is to be expelled the next morning. However, the officer shows compassion and gives her a week to marry an American in order to stay in the States. That same evening, Johnny meets the destitute writer Bill Smith. They drive in a taxi to Bill's house, where Johnny suggests that they enter into a fictitious marriage with her. She would avoid her deportation and write him a check every month in return. Determined to pay her back one day, Bill finally agrees.

Two months of marriage have now passed. Bill is writing a new novel inspired by his marriage of convenience to Johnny. Meanwhile, Johnny meets with Kendrick, who wants to divorce his wife Diana and would be free for Johnny within six weeks. When Johnny brings Bill the next check, she tells him that she wants a divorce. Bill, who had hoped to get to know her better, then sent his manuscript to various publishers. Diana Kendrick is immediately enthusiastic about his story and recommends it to her husband. Kendrick recognizes Johnny and himself in Bill's manuscript and is determined to get to know the young author. In his office he tries to persuade Bill to forego a happy ending in his novel and let the protagonist return to her wealthy admirer. Both men quarrel about it. Diana, however, who has seen through her husband, appeases her and gets Kendrick to publish Bill's novel and pay him $ 500 as a fee.

Bill then drives to Johnny and gives her back the money she has paid him for maintenance since their wedding. However, he only wants to consent to the divorce on the condition that Johnny goes to the country with him and they finally get to know each other better. Secretly, he hopes to win Johnny's heart over. On the way they stop at a bar, from where Johnny Kendrick calls, who wants to bring them back to New York immediately. Bill drives Johnny to his grandmother's house and introduces the elderly woman to his companion as Miss Jones, for which Johnny is very grateful. In the evening, however, Bill is grateful that she inspired him to write his novel. When he kisses her on the porch, Johnny retreats into the house, confused. She is about to go to bed in the guest room when Bill knocks on her door and tries, under an excuse, to spend some more time with her. But Johnny sees through his maneuver and lets him down again. They go to bed in their adjoining rooms. The wall that divides their rooms doesn't quite reach the ceiling, so Johnny calls out to Bill and tells him that he was very nice that day. Drawing new hope, Bill recites a love poem. Moved by his words, Johnny gives him light signals with a flashlight. Bill now wants to go to her again, but Kendrick arrives and wants to go back to New York with Johnny. Angry at the arrival of his rival and convinced that Johnny had asked Kendrick to get his novel out, Bill retires to his room. He thinks Johnny has left him when he sees Kendrick's car pull away through the window. But Johnny, who has now become clear about her feelings for Bill, gives him light signals again and then happily returns his kiss.

background

The film was based on the poem Come Live with Me by Christopher Marlowe named the 1599 for the first time in The Passionate Pilgrim had been published and is played in the film by James Stewart. The shooting took place from October 7th to November 30th 1940. Cedric Gibbons was responsible for the construction of the MGM production , Edwin B. Willis took care of the equipment , while Adrian designed the costumes. In her late 70s, Adeline De Walt Reynolds made her film debut as James Stewart's grandmother in Come Stay With Me .

Come on, stay with me premiered in Los Angeles on January 29, 1941 and went on sale in the US two days later. In Germany the film was shown for the first time on February 21, 1988 by ARD on television.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films called Come on, stay with me as a "[r] outlined comedy against a realistic background, which mainly suffers from the expressionless play of the leading actress". The film, on the other hand, was “really charming” for Cinema . Prisma pointed out that Hedy Lamarr was "especially beautiful and lovable" in the film. Clarence Brown had “directed this 'Green Card' story with a light hand”, which also corresponds to the “perceptible joy of the actors”.

German version

The German dubbed version was created for television in the 1980s.

role actor Voice actor
Bill Smith James Stewart Sigmar Solbach
Johnny Jones Hedy Lamarr Eva Kinsky
Barney Grogan Barton MacLane Horst Sachtleben

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Notes on tcm.com
  2. ↑ Come on, stay with me. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 28, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  4. ↑ cf. prisma.de
  5. ↑ Come on, stay with me. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on October 28, 2019 .