... are you offended by marital rape being played as romantic comedy?? Me too!
The three Gaylord sisters, , Fiona (Barbara Stanwyck), Evelyn (Geraldine Fitzgerald), and Susie (Nancy Coleman), are left orphaned after mom goes down on the Lusitania and dad is killed in WWI. They have a Jeff Bezos sized inheritance coming to them, but the years drag on and everybody is suing claiming a piece of the estate. They grow up in court says one, leaving them cash poor and land rich.
Then a turn of luck. A relative dies and leaves 100K to Fiona as long as she is married. So Fiona tricks a lovestruck (more like lust struck) construction worker Charles Barclay (George Brent) into marrying her. She fakes a fainting spell right after the ceremony, and while her new husband is off getting her an aspirin, Fiona is making her escape and leaves behind a letter and 25K. But Barclay comes back sooner than expected, reads the letter, realizes he's been had, and the presumption is that he forces her. To the tune of comedic Warner Brothers score music???? This is not a Bugs Bunny cartoon folks.
So six years pass and Barclay is now a real estate developer financing the people who have the best claim to the still embattled Gaylord estate because??? Even if the charity he is financially backing got the 10% of the estate they claim is theirs, his cut would not be the Gaylord mansion, which is what he says he wants. Is Barclay 50 years ahead of his time in using the legal strategy of losing until the other side surrenders? Why is Gig Young playing Gig Young? Does George Brent enjoy playing all of these Warner Brothers characters whose motives don't make lots of sense? Why is Geraldine Fitzgerald being passed off as "the pretty sister" with Barbara Stanwyck on stage? Beats me and I watched it twice.
I'd recommend it because of Barbara Stanwyck, but you will have to leave your modern sensibilities at the door, and even then, this is somewhat cringey.
The three Gaylord sisters, , Fiona (Barbara Stanwyck), Evelyn (Geraldine Fitzgerald), and Susie (Nancy Coleman), are left orphaned after mom goes down on the Lusitania and dad is killed in WWI. They have a Jeff Bezos sized inheritance coming to them, but the years drag on and everybody is suing claiming a piece of the estate. They grow up in court says one, leaving them cash poor and land rich.
Then a turn of luck. A relative dies and leaves 100K to Fiona as long as she is married. So Fiona tricks a lovestruck (more like lust struck) construction worker Charles Barclay (George Brent) into marrying her. She fakes a fainting spell right after the ceremony, and while her new husband is off getting her an aspirin, Fiona is making her escape and leaves behind a letter and 25K. But Barclay comes back sooner than expected, reads the letter, realizes he's been had, and the presumption is that he forces her. To the tune of comedic Warner Brothers score music???? This is not a Bugs Bunny cartoon folks.
So six years pass and Barclay is now a real estate developer financing the people who have the best claim to the still embattled Gaylord estate because??? Even if the charity he is financially backing got the 10% of the estate they claim is theirs, his cut would not be the Gaylord mansion, which is what he says he wants. Is Barclay 50 years ahead of his time in using the legal strategy of losing until the other side surrenders? Why is Gig Young playing Gig Young? Does George Brent enjoy playing all of these Warner Brothers characters whose motives don't make lots of sense? Why is Geraldine Fitzgerald being passed off as "the pretty sister" with Barbara Stanwyck on stage? Beats me and I watched it twice.
I'd recommend it because of Barbara Stanwyck, but you will have to leave your modern sensibilities at the door, and even then, this is somewhat cringey.