Love is not that simple

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Movie
German title Love is not that simple
Original title The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1947
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Irving Reis
script Sidney Sheldon
production Dore Schary
music Leigh Harline
camera Robert De Grasse ,
Nicholas Musuraca
cut Frederic Knudtson
occupation
synchronization

Love is not that simple (Original title: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer ) is an American comedy film by director Irving Reis from 1947 based on a story by screenwriter Sidney Sheldon . The film was produced by RKO . The German premiere was on September 30, 1949.

action

Margaret Turner, a judge, looks after her 17-year-old sister Susan. Richard Nugent, an artist involved in a bar fight, appears in court. Margaret acquits those involved in the bar fight, but gets the worst possible impression from Nugent. On the same day, Nugent gives a guest lecture at the high school, which Susan also attends. Nugent is well received by female students because of his charm and appearance, including Susan. She would like to interview him for the school newspaper. He politely evades the question of whether she would make a good model. Susan takes this as an incentive and manages to come to his apartment to wait for him there. While waiting, Susan falls asleep. When Nugent comes back, he doesn't notice Susan. He makes himself a drink, sits down to read. Susan wakes up and suddenly there is a knock: Margaret and District Attorney Tommy Chamberlain are at the door, who have gone to find Susan.

Richard is arrested, especially since he also knocked Tommy down. Matt, the forensic psychiatrist and uncle of Margaret and Susan, believes in Richard's innocence. He demands that Richard should not be prosecuted, as Susan would not get rid of her crush if convicted. Together with Margaret, Matt plans that Susan and Richard may continue to see each other, with the ulterior motive that Susan will soon have enough of Richard. They convince Tommy and Judge Treadwell to drop the charges if Richard continues to see Susan. Since Richard doesn't want to go to prison for up to 20 years, he agrees.

As a result, Richard goes out with the youngster, which, given the age difference, repeatedly puts him in embarrassing situations. First, Richard tries to reunite Susan with her ex-boyfriend, Jerry White. But Jerry doesn't want to stand in the way of an apparent relationship between the two. Richard then tries to make Susan lose interest in him by pretending to be a ridiculous teenager. A competition begins at a sports festival, Tommy and Richard take part more for fun. First Tommy leads, because Richard is deliberately unsportsmanlike, but in the end Richard wins the trophy - as does Margaret's attention.

Meanwhile, Tommy suspects that Richard is more interested in Margaret, which upsets him as a hapless long-term admirer of Margaret. Tommy finally drops the charges against Richard so he no longer has to meet Susan and see Margaret. Margaret and Richard still arrange to have dinner in a nightclub. Gradually, however, Richard's ex-girlfriend Agnes and her boyfriend Joey, Susan, who is jealous of her sister, and Jerry and Tommy, who are jealous of Richard, join. The evening ends in a big argument between everyone involved. Uncle Matt has to fix the situation and explains to Susan that her crush on Richard is childish, which she finally realizes. When Richard is about to travel, Matt arranges for Margaret to be on the same plane, which both of them are happily surprised. Tommy appears at the airport and wants to have Richard arrested, but a tip from Uncle Matt thinks the police are crazy and takes him away.

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The English original title means translated The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxerin . “Bobby Soxer” is a term that has been somewhat forgotten today, but was known in the 1940s for a youth culture of around 15 to 18-year-old teenagers who wore bobby socks , were characterized by a cheerful demeanor and fans of pop music of the time - especially by Frank Sinatra - were. The public at the time associated the Bobby Soxer with a series of runaway concerts by Sinatra in 1944, during which teenagers tore the singer's clothes off and tried to sneak into his dressing room. Shirley Temple delivers a parody of the "Bobby Soxers" with her portrayal of the adorable teenage girl who causes a lot of problems for Cary Grant, who she admires.

Twelve years after Light in the Dark and one year ago Just for the sake of my wife , this film is the middle of three films starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. Myrna Loy played Shirley Temple's sister, although she was almost 23 years older than her. The screenwriter Sidney Sheldon received an Oscar for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer in 1948 and thus celebrated his breakthrough in Hollywood - but later Sheldon became known worldwide as a bestselling author and creator of the television series The Charming Jeannie and Hart . Already an Oscar winner, composer Leigh Harline joined the project. He won two Academy Awards in 1941 for film music and the best song by Pinocchio . Edward Stevenson , who was responsible for the costumes , only received Oscar honors later (1961 for Such an Affair ).

The comedy grossed $ 5.5 million in the United States, making it 13th on the 1947 list of the most commercially successful Hollywood films published by the industry journal Variety . A radio adaptation of the film starring Cary Grant and Shirley Temple was broadcast on June 13, 1949.

The quickly spoken dialogue that Grant's character begins in the film with the characters of Shirley Temple, Harry Davenport and Myrna Loy gained fame in English-speaking countries: "You remind me of a man." "What man?" "The man with the power." "What power?" "The power of hoodoo." "Who do?" "You do!" David Bowie used the dialogue in slightly modified form in his song Magic Dance , which he sings in the film Die Reise ins Labyrinth (1986) by Jim Henson .

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In the German dubbed version, Cary Grant is spoken by Paul Klinger , Friedel Schuster lends her voice to Myrna Loy , Gina Presgott can be heard for Shirley Temple and Ernst Schröder can be heard as Rudy Vallée .

Reviews

Bosley Crowther found The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer in the New York Times of July 25, 1947 as a successful comedy. Grant shows one of his "best and most beautiful" comedy performances, Temple and Loy are charming in their roles and Rudy Vallee is "remarkably funny". The comedy of Sidney Sheldon's script was "strong and undiminished by cuteness, just as it should be". Crowther was also reminded of the screwball comedies of the late 1930s.

For the lexicon of international film , Love is not so simple was a “comedy with wit, irony and speed”. The TV magazine Prisma called the film a "star-studded joke, the story of which is not the most original, but still knows how to please". Between Cary Grant and “the good-humored Myrna Loy” there are “funny verbal battles”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Sickels, Robert J. Sickels: The 1940s . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004, ISBN 978-0-313-31299-1 ( google.de [accessed April 19, 2020]).
  2. ^ Media History Digital Library Media History Digital Library: Variety (January 1948) . New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company, 1948 ( archive.org [accessed April 19, 2020]).
  3. ^ David Bowie's 'Magic Dance' - Discover the Sample Source. Retrieved April 19, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ Love is not that simple. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on July 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Bosley Crowther: 'The Bachelor and Bobby-Soxer,' in Which Cary Grant, Myrna Lay and Shirley Temple Are Principals, at the Music Hall . In: The New York Times . July 25, 1947, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 20, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Love is not that simple. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  7. ↑ See prisma.de