Office hour for love
| Movie | |
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| German title | Office hour for love |
| Original title | Appointment for Love |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1941 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | William A. Seiter |
| script |
Bruce Manning Felix Jackson based on the original story Heartbeat by Ladislaus Bus-Fekete |
| production | Bruce Manning production company Universal Studios |
| music | Frank Skinner |
| camera | Joseph Valentine |
| cut | Ted J. Kent |
| occupation | |
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Consultation for Love (Original title: Appointment for Love ) is an American comedy film from 1941. Directed by William A. Seiter , Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullavan play a married couple who only find each other when it almost looks like as if their marriage had failed.
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André Cassil is a successful playwright . His latest piece is also very well received by the audience. At the premiere, he notices a young woman in the front row who is strangely slumped in her seat. When he tries to help her, he can hardly believe his eyes when he realizes that she fell asleep during his play. It turns out that her name is Jane Alexander and that she is an intern at a clinic. She explains very firmly to him that love is only a chemical reaction. It is precisely because of her strange demeanor that Cassil is interested in her and the very next day, pretending to have heart problems, visits the clinic where she is employed. In fact, he gets Jane Alexander to examine him. She does this with her own thoroughness and comes to the conclusion that he is very healthy. She declined an invitation on the grounds that she was on emergency duty. His persistence towards her pays off over time, however, so that Jane accepts his marriage proposal on the grounds that she wants to explore the experiment of marriage and what is really behind it. On his wedding day, of all times, a Nancy Benson, a former girlfriend, contacted André Cassil. During a weak hour he had given her an almost marriage vow long ago. She asks him to pick her up from the train station. In order to hide the arrival of Nancy from his wife, André had the crazy idea of showing Jane that a fire had broken out at the train station and that he had to help put it out. Ultimately, he can get the wailing Nancy to go home again. Through a phone call, Jane has since found out that there was no fire at the train station, but she does not show anything to her newly wedded husband. The next call is for Jane and orders her back to New York because the clinic urgently needs her help. What a wedding night!
Andrés' next step also goes wrong. Jane doesn't want to live with him in the extra rented apartment on the 17th floor. She has already taken up residence on the 22nd floor. She justifies this by saying that she wants to remain independent and dispose of her time as before. After all, André gets a key to her apartment and she gets one to her husband's apartment in return. Even the jointly planned breakfast, which Jane set for eight o'clock, is a disaster - their habits are too different. The couple spend the following time only very sporadically together. Again and again André feels offended by his wife. Be it that he finds a doctor colleague, Michael Dailey, on the chaise longue with her , or even seeing her patients in Jane's apartment who have to rest a little after a treatment there. When Jane explains to her husband that she has to keep the night watch in the clinic again, André invites Meredith, an actress, to join him. When Jane unexpectedly visits him at a theater rehearsal where a love scene is being rehearsed, he doesn't feel very comfortable in his skin. Marriage is drifting apart. When André waits for hours for Jane one night, he has serious suspicions of adultery . Confused thoughts go through his head without him, who finds a solution for everything in his plays, has an idea how to behave now. When he finds his wife at a medical conference, he can't resist stepping in front of the microphone and shouting, "Jane, where were you last night?" The newspapers pick up on the topic that seems more interesting to them than medical research , of course, and Jane stands there as a disgrace. The papers roll over to where Jane was last night . But there is an explanation as simple as it is astounding for where Jane was last night. She was waiting for him in her husband's apartment! From now on everything changes and the couple no longer needs separate apartments.
background
The film was shot from July 16, 1941 to August 1941 at Universal Studios in Universal City in Los Angeles County , USA . The film premiered in the USA on October 31, 1941, and opened in Germany in November 1945. In Austria, it was also released in cinemas in 1945 under the title Office Hours for Love . The working title of the film was Heartbeat , this is also the original story by Ladislaus Bus-Fekete .
Feldman-Blum Corp. Bus-Fekete bought the film rights to the book for $ 8,000, with director Otto Preminger slated for a film adaptation. Later you offered the rights Howard Hughes , Warner Brothers and Twentieth Century Fox , but without success. Eventually the script was sold to Universal for $ 50,000 . The finished film was screened on a trial basis in Glendale on October 22, 1941 to test audience reactions. The New York Times reported in July 1946 that this film was one of the first American films during World War II to feature German civilians. Margaret Sullavan, Charles Boyer and director William A. Seiter had previously worked together on the Universal film Back Street . Charles Boyer spoke about his role on a Lux Radio broadcast on February 23, 1942. The broadcast was repeated on May 1, 1944.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film said that “despite the skillfully presented situation comedy, it is a not very original tabloid comedy.” Bosley Crowther of the New York Times said, “That the story no longer even with Charles Boyer's charm than skin and bones suggest that refinement is as thinly sown as a thin layer on an old frame that rattles. This man-woman story, which leads to marital ties and in which a romantic playwright sees a soul mate in a doctor determined solely by the mind, is incomprehensible. Why, of all people, she attracts him so strongly (except that it is Margaret Sullavan) remains a secret. The talent of two likeable stars is more likely to be wasted here. This story has no more originality or spirit than a ten year old joke. Of course, the film also offers a number of places to laugh, the rest, however, is garnished with stars. ” Variety came to the general conclusion that consultation hours for love were a well-constructed film that offered good entertainment. [...]. It offers something to laugh about and situations that would not fail to have an effect. Boyer would convey that he was going into marriage with great confidence and that Sullavan played with charm and the ability to convey how she could go from being a strict doctor to a romantic, loving woman.
Awards
At the 1942 Academy Awards , Bernard B. Brown was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Sound category, but it went to Jack Whitney and the drama Lord Nelson's Last Love ( That Hamilton Woman ).
Web links
- Consultation hour for love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Appointment for Love. In: Turner Classic Movies . Accessed December 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Consultation hour for love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 1, 2018 .
- ^ Appointment for Love Bosley Crowther on November 7, 1941 in the New York Times (English text). Retrieved January 16, 2013.
- ^ Appointment for Love. In: Variety . 1941, accessed May 31, 2020 .