Up in Mabel's Room (1944)

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Movie
Original title Up in Mabel's room
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1944
length 76 minutes
Rod
Director Allan Dwan
script Tom Reed
Isabel Dawn
production Edward Small
for United Artists
music Michael Michelet , Edward Paul
camera Charles Lawton Jr.
cut Richard Heermance
occupation

Up in Mabel's Room is a 1944 American comedy film directed by Allan Dwan . The leading roles are starring Marjorie Reynolds , Dennis O'Keefe and Gail Patrick .

The script is based on the play Up in Mabel's Room, a Frivolous Farce of Feminine Foibles in Three Acts by Otto Harbach and Wilson Collison (New York, January 15, 1919).

action

Geraldine and Gary Ainsworth have only been married a month and want to celebrate this day with a festive celebration. Arthur Weldon, Gary's business partner, who is now engaged to Gary's former girlfriend Mabel Essington, is among the invited guests. Gary is concerned that Geraldine does not know that he has been in a relationship with Mabel in the past. He is particularly worried about a present he gave Mabel at the time, a negligee with his initials and a declaration of love embroidered on the tip. Because of this gift, which Gary would like to have back, entanglements and suspicions arise in the following hours and days, and Gary himself gets into precarious situations from which he can repeatedly wriggle out at the last second. Geraldine, increasingly overwhelmed by the situation, calls her dominant mother to ask her advice, while chaos rises and Gary is even suspected of having an illegitimate child.

In the end, however, everything clears up and peace is restored. Arthur apologizes to Mabel for his behavior and Geraldine tells her mother on the phone that she no longer needs her help, as she is sure that everything in her marriage will be fine and that Gary genuinely loves her.

Production, background, publication

The film was shot from November 24th to December 22nd, 1943 and also from December 27th, 1943 to the beginning of January 1944. The costumes were created by Kay Nelson , while Edward G. Boyle was responsible for the set.

The film begins with a prologue to the effect that it takes a lot of courage to act in times of war. Then the question is asked whether it is possible to hide a secret from one's wife. It's like war.

According to the Hollywood Reporter , Ray McCarey had been entrusted with directing the film in early November 1943, but was replaced by Allan Dwan at the last minute. Franchot Tone had been announced for a role in the film in early November 1943, as had Joan Bennett , who would play Mabel, which fell apart. Gail Patrick, who was initially intended for the role of Alicia, then took on the role of Mabel. Mischa Auer, who can be seen as Boris, had to be hospitalized after a breakdown. Marjorie Reynolds was loaned to Paramount Pictures .

The original by Harbach and Collison was filmed in 1926 under the direction of E. Mason Hopper with Marie Prevost , Harrison Ford and Phyllis Haver in the leading roles. In his 1945 film Getting Gertie's Garter , in which Dennis O'Keefe again played a leading role, Dwan again borrowed from this film, here too it was about misunderstandings that revolved around women's underwear.

publication

The film was not shown in cinemas in Germany (Federal Republic and GDR).

  • USA: April 7, 1944 and April 21, 1944 in New York
  • Portugal: July 9, 1944 under the title Um Noivo Tímido
  • Sweden: November 20, 1944 under the title Svartsjuka fruar
  • Spain: May 17, 1954 in Madrid under the title Un casado en apuros
  • Brazil under the title A Combinação de Mabel
  • Italy under the title Nella camera di Mabel

criticism

Bosley Crowther of the New York Times asked himself and the audience various questions about situations in the film that resulted in, What's funny about when ... and answered those questions for himself by saying that it was miserably boring, the audience that was but I probably saw it differently, as it kept laughing uproariously at the gags.

Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid said that Dwan was telling the story at a brisk pace, that something was happening all the time, and that he had mastered the trick of staying on top of things.

Award / nomination

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Up in Mabel's Room Original information at TCM (English)
  2. ↑ a b c Up in Mabel's Room (1944) Notes at TCM - Turner Classic Movies (English)
  3. ↑ Bosley Crowther: Up in Mabel's Room (1944) Opens at the Gotham - Mexican Film at Belmont Theater In: The New York Times . April 22, 1944 (English). Retrieved February 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ Jeffrey M. Anderson: Up in Mabel's Room (1944) - The Dwan Patrol at combustiblecelluloid.com (English)