Remember?
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Remember? |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1939 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Norman Z. McLeod |
| script |
Corey Ford , Norman Z. McLeod |
| production | Milton H. Bren |
| music | Edward Ward |
| camera | George J. Folsey |
| cut | Harold F. Kress |
| occupation | |
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Remember? is a 1939 American comedy film starring Robert Taylor and Greer Garson .
action
When Sky Ames returns from his Nassau vacation , he can't wait to introduce his fiancée Linda Bronson to his best friend, Jeff Holland. To Sky's annoyance, Jeff is immediately taken with Linda and starts flirting with her over lunch. At a reception on the occasion of her engagement to Sky, Linda, accompanied by Jeff, arrives and introduces him to her wealthy parents. Jeff is then invited to a fox hunt together. As an inexperienced rider, he is thrown from his horse while hunting. He ends up in a puddle and Linda tries to get him back on his feet, but also falls into the water. In a barn they take off each other's wet boots and jackets. When Jeff gives Linda a kiss, the hunting party arrives in front of the barn and Sky turns away with a disappointed look. Linda is then determined to get Jeff out of her mind. On Sky's advice, she doesn't want to force herself to just forget about Jeff, because according to Sky that would have the opposite effect. Instead, she meets with Jeff. However, they get closer again and decide to get married.
Jeff is stopped by his work on their way to Niagara Falls . Linda interprets his zeal for work as a lack of interest in her, which is why she breaks off the engagement for the time being and drives away in a taxi. Jeff follows her in another taxi. When both cars are stopped by a police officer because of excessive speed, Jeff says he and Linda are in a hurry because they are on their way to their wedding ceremony. Escorted by the officer, they arrive at Judge Milliken, an acquaintance of Linda. Inevitably, Jeff and Linda let him marry them. Linda then moves in with Jeff and they are both happy to have married after all. But shortly afterwards Jeff throws himself back into his work and neglects his newly wedded wife. The fact that he repeatedly postpones their honeymoon together offends Linda so much that she promptly files for divorce.
When Sky realizes how much Linda means to Jeff, he procures a tool from his company's laboratory that makes unhappy couples forget what happened in the previous months. When Linda and Jeff use the same remedy, they both forget they ever met. Sky then introduces them to each other again and they fall in love again. After their second wedding, Jeff, Linda and Sky toast together. To Jeff's surprise, Linda admits that they are already expecting offspring.
background
After British actress Greer Garson was acclaimed by both critics and audiences for her film debut in Goodbye, Mr. Chips in 1939 , MGM boss Louis B. Mayer cranked the production of Remember? in order to get his new star the next leading role immediately.
The film premiered on December 14, 1939 in New York City . On December 19, 1939, it went on public sale in the United States. However, the film was only moderately successful at the US box office, but did not damage Garson's career or that of her screen partner Robert Taylor.
criticism
Frank S. Nugent of the New York Times said at the time that Greer Garson would "meet the high expectations" that her first appearance in Goodbye, Mr. Chips had raised, "but in another film". In Remember? she is "not in her element", which is not her fault, but that of the casting director . The plot of the film is also "easy to forget". In retrospect, the film critic Leonard Maltin called the film a "blah comedy", which was a "nice attempt" but went wrong.
Web links
- Remember? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Remember? at Turner Classic Movies (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ “We feel sure that Miss Garson will yet justify the high hopes which her first appearance excited, but in some other vehicle […] she seems to be slightly out of Greer, the fault is not her's but the casting director's […]. The story of Remember? is one which you are going to find it easy to forget. " Frank S. Nugent : Capitol Shows 'Remember?' . In: The New York Times , December 15, 1939.
- ↑ “Blah comedy […]. Nice try, but no cigar. " Leonard Maltin : Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2004 . Plume 2003, p. 1152.