Darling, you've changed

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Movie
German title Darling, you've changed
Original title I love you again
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1940
length 99 minutes
Rod
Director WS Van Dyke
script Leon Gordon ,
Maurine Dallas Watkins ,
Charles Lederer ,
George Oppenheimer ,
Harry Kurnitz
production Lawrence Weingarten
music Franz Waxman
camera Oliver T. Marsh
cut Gene Ruggiero
occupation
synchronization

Honey, you've changed (original title: I Love You Again ) is an American screwball comedy from 1940. Directed by WS Van Dyke are William Powell and Myrna Loy seen in the lead roles. A novel by Octavus Roy Cohen served as a literary model .

action

When a drunk man goes overboard on a cruise, the bourgeois Larry Wilson throws him a life preserver and falls into the sea himself. Unfortunately, Larry is hit on the head by an oar of the lifeboat. When he comes to in his cabin, he looks like a different man. It turns out that he suffered from amnesia for nine years . His real name is George Carey and has been a shrewd crook in the past. Since, as Larry, he has become an honorable citizen of a small town in Pennsylvania in the past nine years and has amassed a considerable fortune according to the bank statement, George hopes to be able to knock this fortune on his head. The man he saved the life of and who introduces himself as Ryan is supposed to help him and receive a share. George telegrams Larry's bank to a New York hotel to pay him an initial sum of $ 5,000 from one of his accounts.

Arriving in New York Harbor, George meets Larry's wife Kay, who accompanies him to the hotel with Ryan. There Kay tells him that she wants to divorce him. A bank clerk arrives and gives him the $ 5,000. However, the money comes from an account that he has already overdrawn. His actual fortune is divided between two other accounts that he had set up as Larry for charitable purposes and whose payouts have to be countersigned by other residents of the provincial town of Habersville. After the bank clerk, Kay's fiancé Herbert arrives in George's hotel room. He looks for Kay and angrily gives George a blow. George, who was immediately taken with Kay's charm, invites her and Herbert to dinner together. In the restaurant, Kay is amazed when her stingy husband, unlike in the past, orders champagne and can dance unexpectedly well. However, she continues to insist on a divorce and leaves the restaurant with Herbert before dinner. George follows them and gives Kay a deep kiss goodbye.

George, Ryan, Kay and Herbert arrive together in Habersville by train. George is received with great honor at the station. The mayor gives him the key to the city for his charitable work. When George is asked to play one of Larry's compositions on a trumpet, but is unable to do so, he pretends to faint and is then rushed home. Ryan, who he has passed off as his doctor from the start, gives him bed rest and gives him time to think. To his regret, however, George finds out that he and Kay have separate bedrooms. Kay continues to be cool to him. In any case, she only lives in his house to make the citizens of the city believe that they are still happily married.

It turns out that Larry or George is the manager of a pottery. George sneaks into his office with Ryan one night. When they want to open the safe there, the alarm system goes off. Followed by security guards, George escapes with Ryan into his house. The next day George goes shopping with Kay. To the surprise of Kay and the employees of a lingerie salon, George, widely known as a tight-fisted man, buys an expensive nightgown for Kay. At home, George then dares to make an advances. Kay accuses him, however, that public opinion has always meant more to him than she does and that he only woos her like never before because he sees his reputation in danger.

To get the money he was hoping for, George hatches a plan with Ryan and his former business partner Duke Sheldon. They pretend that there is an oil well in a stream on George's property. When George, as the leader of a boy scout group, is supposed to teach young scouts a lesson in tracing, he orders three of the scouts to wade through the stream, where they eventually discover the oil. In the evening, the boys lead their fathers to the supposed oil well. With the prospect of a fortune, the men propose a deal to George. They want to buy the land from him for $ 10,000. Duke Sheldon, however, as agreed, offers George double the amount, whereupon the others increase their offer. However, when Kay, who broke up with Herbert, kisses her husband of his own free will after an evening walk, George no longer wants to be a crook. He wants to lead a completely normal life with Kay in Habersville. He offers Ryan a job in the pottery and makes him enjoy a peaceful family life. Duke, on the other hand, is anything but enthusiastic about George's plans and threatens to have him blown if George does not follow through with their coup. Kay, who has since learned from Ryan that George has suffered from amnesia for years and is actually a crook, interrupts their conversation and rebukes Duke. This then knocks George to the ground. When George comes to, he thinks he's on a ship and doesn't recognize Duke. The fact that George seems to be boring Larry again makes Kay cry. When they are alone, however, he gives her to understand that he has only faked his memory loss again. Happy, Kay gives him a kiss.

background

Cedric Gibbons was responsible for the film construction , Edwin B. Willis took care of the equipment . William Powell and Myrna Loy had previously worked together under the direction of WS Van Dyke on several occasions, for example on their first of a total of 14 films together, Manhattan Melodrama (1934), and last but not least on the successful crime comedy The Thin Man and three sequels.

Darling, You Have Changed , premiered in the United States on August 9, 1940, and it was a huge box-office hit. In Germany, the film was first shown on TV on August 21, 1992 by ARD .

Reviews

For the lexicon of international films , Liebling, You Have Changed, was a "[exuberant romantic comedy with the successful screen couple Powell / Loy, who provides charming entertainment". Prisma described the film as a “classic Hollywood comedy”, which WS Van Dyke “staged with an excellent cast of actors”.

Bosley Crowther of the New York Times described the film at the time as a "domestic comedy" that was "anything but boring." William Powell and Myrna Loy are "one of the most versatile and liveliest comedy couples" who "let an hour and a half fly by with such a crazy script as here". According to film critic Leonard Maltin , the story of the memoryless Powell is "hilarious". The script is simply "brilliant".

German version

The German dubbed version was created in 1992 by Interopa Film in Berlin based on the dialogue book and directed by Peter Harlos .

role actor Voice actor
Larry Wilson / George Carey William Powell Helmut Gauss
Kay Wilson Myrna Loy Monika Barth
"Doc" Ryan Frank McHugh Hans-Jürgen Dittberner
Duke Sheldon Edmund Lowe Lothar Blumhagen
Herbert Donald Douglas Peter Reinhardt
Kay's mother Nella Walker Bettina Schön
Mr. Littlejohn Sr. Paul Stanton Rudiger Evers
Mr. Belenson Morgan Wallace Eberhard Mellies
Billings Charles Arnt Frank Ciazynski

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Rob Nixon on tcm.com
  2. ↑ a b darling, you've changed. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 2, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ cf. prisma.de
  4. ↑ “Metro […] has graciously remarried [Powell and Loy] in an anything but dull domestic comedy entitled I Love You Again […]. For Mr. Powell and Miss Loy, no matter what their names, are one of our most versatile and frisky connubial comedy teams, and, given a script as daffy as the one here in evidence, they can make an hour and a half spin like a roulette wheel. " Bosley Crowther : William Powell and Myrna Loy Back Together in 'I Love You Again,' at the Capitol . In: The New York Times , August 16, 1940.
  5. ↑ “Hilarious story of amnesiac Powell […]. Ingenious script by Charles Lederer, George Oppenheimer, and Harry Kurnitz. " Leonard Maltin : Leonard Maltin's 2005 Movie & Video Guide . Plume, 2004, p. 670.
  6. ↑ Darling, you've changed. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on February 2, 2020 .