We're not married at all
| Movie | |
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| German title | We're not married at all |
| Original title | We're Not Married! |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1952 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Edmund Goulding |
| script | Nunnally Johnson |
| production | Nunnally Johnson for Twentieth Century Fox |
| music | Cyril J. Mockridge |
| camera | Leo Tover |
| cut | Louis R. Loeffler |
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We're Not Married at All (Original title: We're Not Married! ) Is an American fictional film by Edmund Goulding from 1952.
action
A few hours after his appointment as Justice of the Peace, Mevin Bush married his first couple for Christmas in a small town. After two and a half years, one of Bush's married couples wants to get a divorce and learns that they were not legally married: Bush's certificate of appointment as justice of the peace was received on December 24th, but he should not have been allowed to start work until January 1st . Between Christmas and New Years, Bush married six couples. After one divorce there are five more couples who - in order to avoid a scandal - receive a letter from the governor personally informing them of the officially non-binding marriage.
The first couple are Ramona and Steve Gladwyn, who barely knew each other at the time of marriage. They married because they had received the offer of a radio show , where both should appear as believable as possible as a happy married couple "the glad Gladwyns". A real marriage was mandatory. Now both are considered the happiest couple in America through their show, in which they mainly advertise various products, and are role models for other couples. In reality, the Gladwyns can't stand each other and don't even speak to each other at home. The news of the non-marriage makes both of them euphoric. Under no circumstances are they planning to remarry, but the program director threatens them with dismissal.
The roles of the second couple were clear at the time of marriage: Annabel was a shy young woman and her husband Jeff was the man in the house. Two and a half years later, the roles have been reversed. Jeff is always at home with their son and takes care of the children and the household. Meanwhile, Annabel travels from one beauty pageant to the next, aiming for the title of Mrs. America. She has just been elected Mrs. Mississippi when the governor's letter arrives. Jeff senses his chance and forbids Annabel any further participation in beauty pageants, since as an unmarried woman she is not allowed to take part in Mrs. competitions. After initial disappointment, Annabel quickly composed herself: she could now take part in the Miss elections instead. She wins the Miss Mississippi election and her husband, now groom, is just as proud in the audience as in the previous Mrs. election.
The third couple, Katie and Hector C. Woodruff, were extremely talkative when they married, but have nothing to say after two and a half years of marriage. When the governor's letter arrives, Hector immediately loses himself in daydreaming about the numerous affairs he might have now, but wakes up when he is presented with the bill for the dissolute life. He tears up the letter.
The fourth couple consists of the wealthy and gullible Freddie Melrose and his wife Eve, who only married him for the money. On one of his business trips, Eve makes an appointment with him, but instead sends a strange woman to his room, where her lawyer seeks out the ignorant Freddie and meets the woman. Eve now wants to divorce Freddie for cheating and claims more than 50 percent of his total assets, including house, limousine and securities . When Freddie rushes to his secretary in desperation, she has the governor's letter for him. He lets Eve read the letter with satisfaction, whereupon she passes out.
The fifth couple is Patsy Reynolds Fisher and Willie, who is drafted into the war as a soldier. He has read the governor's letter with him, but Patsy knows nothing about it. As Willie's train is leaving the platform, Patsy comes running after him with the news that she is expecting a child from him. Willie is now desperate that if his child were killed in the war, he would be considered illegitimate. Even if they were married after nine months, their child would initially be born out of wedlock. He deserted from his squad in order to secretly get married shortly before his ship left. Shortly before the registry office he is caught and imprisoned. Patsy has since received help from a military chaplain who now trusts Patsy and Willie over the internal army radio. In the end it turns out that all four couples except for Eve and Freddie Melrose say yes again.
production
We're not married at all based on a story written by Gina Kaus and Jay Dratler . Nunally Johnson wrote the script based on an adaptation by Dwight Taylor . The film premiered on July 11, 1952. We are not married at all was shown in Germany in December 1953.
criticism
The Lexicon of International Films described We Are Not Married at all as "a qualitatively unbalanced American comedy film between smiles and laughter." Other critics found that the film was "mass-produced apart from a few funny scenes [...]."
Web links
- We are not married in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- We are not married at all on cinema.de (with film images)