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Rings on Her Fingers

  • 19421942
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 26m
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6.6/10
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Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney in Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
  • Comedy
  • Crime
  • Romance
Two con artists take a shopgirl under their wing, but complications arise when she begins to fall for a mathematician, disrupting their marrying-for-money scheme.Two con artists take a shopgirl under their wing, but complications arise when she begins to fall for a mathematician, disrupting their marrying-for-money scheme.Two con artists take a shopgirl under their wing, but complications arise when she begins to fall for a mathematician, disrupting their marrying-for-money scheme.
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859
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  • Director
    • Rouben Mamoulian
  • Writers
    • Ken Englund(screen play)
    • Robert Pirosh(original story)
    • Joseph Schrank(original story)
  • Stars
    • Henry Fonda
    • Gene Tierney
    • Laird Cregar
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  • Director
    • Rouben Mamoulian
  • Writers
    • Ken Englund(screen play)
    • Robert Pirosh(original story)
    • Joseph Schrank(original story)
  • Stars
    • Henry Fonda
    • Gene Tierney
    • Laird Cregar
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    • 17User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
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    Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney in Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
    Gene Tierney in Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
    Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney in Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
    Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney in Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
    Gene Tierney in Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
    Gene Tierney and Iris Adrian in Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
    Gene Tierney in Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
    Gene Tierney in Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
    Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney in Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
    Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney in Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
    Gene Tierney in Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
    Gene Tierney in Rings on Her Fingers (1942)

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    Henry Fonda
    Henry Fonda
    • John Wheeleras John Wheeler
    Gene Tierney
    Gene Tierney
    • Susan Milleras Susan Miller…
    Laird Cregar
    Laird Cregar
    • Warren Worthingtonas Warren Worthington
    Shepperd Strudwick
    Shepperd Strudwick
    • Tod Fenwickas Tod Fenwick
    Spring Byington
    Spring Byington
    • Mrs. Maybelle Worthingtonas Mrs. Maybelle Worthington
    Frank Orth
    Frank Orth
    • Kelloggas Kellogg
    Henry Stephenson
    Henry Stephenson
    • Colonel Harry Prentissas Colonel Harry Prentiss
    Marjorie Gateson
    Marjorie Gateson
    • Mrs. Fenwickas Mrs. Fenwick
    George Lessey
    George Lessey
    • Fenwick Sr.as Fenwick Sr.
    Iris Adrian
    Iris Adrian
    • Peggyas Peggy
    Harry Hayden
    • Conductoras Conductor
    Gwendolyn Logan
    • Miss Calahanas Miss Calahan
    Eric Wilton
    • Butleras Butler
    William 'Billy' Benedict
    William 'Billy' Benedict
    • Newsboyas Newsboy
    • (as Billy Benedict)
    Sarah Edwards
    Sarah Edwards
    • Mrs. Clancyas Mrs. Clancy
    Thurston Hall
    Thurston Hall
    • Mr. Harvey Beasleyas Mr. Harvey Beasley
    Clara Blandick
    Clara Blandick
    • Mrs. Beasleyas Mrs. Beasley
    Charles C. Wilson
    Charles C. Wilson
    • Captain Hurleyas Captain Hurley
    • (as Charles Wilson)
    • Director
      • Rouben Mamoulian
    • Writers
      • Ken Englund(screen play)
      • Robert Pirosh(original story)
      • Joseph Schrank(original story)
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    Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat. John admits that he is not a millionaire but only a $65-a-week clerk. He asks her to marry him and, over the protests of May, she accepts. Tod, who has been away, wires Linda a marriage proposal which is intercepted by Warren, who accepts on her behalf via a return wire. He intends to blackmail her into marrying Tod and then blackmail the Fenwicks into dissolving the marriage. To get John's money back to him, which she has but can't tell him, Linda enlists the aid of Colonel Prentiss who runs a gambling house, and the machines are fixed so that John wins his money back. Linda and John go to the terminal to leave, but Tod shows up and she tries to keep him away from John, who knows her as Sue. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
    • bare chested male
    • screwball comedy
    • salesgirl
    • lingerie
    • girdle
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      • IT'S the FUNNIEST STORY since EVE Double-crossed Adam out of His Rib! (Print Ad-Philadelphia Inquirer, ((Philadelphia, Penna.)) 8 May 1942)
    • Genres
      • Comedy
      • Crime
      • Romance
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      • Approved
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    • Trivia
      Studio publicity material noted that the yacht used in the film, the "Bali", was owned by John Carradine.
    • Quotes

      Susan Miller: Say, are you really millionaires?

      [Warren and Maybelle burst into laughter]

      Warren: Why?

      Susan Miller: Well, there seems to be something missing.

      Mrs. Maybelle Worthington: Just the millions, and they can't rule you out for a technicality.

      Warren: You see, nature played a little trick on us: we should have been born with blue blood, so we have devoted our entire life to correcting this... biological error.

      Susan Miller: What do you do? If you're not, what are you?

      Mrs. Maybelle Worthington: Well, we're sort of an excess profits tax. To criticize us would be unamerican.

      Warren: We are merely bees that take a little nectar from the flowers that have so much. And you too can have some.

    • Connections
      Featured in AFI Life Achievement Award: AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda (1978)
    • Soundtracks
      Yo, Ho, Ho, and a Bottle of Rum
      (uncredited)

      Traditional

      Played and sung at the beginning

    User reviews17

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    Top review
    6/10
    More Like A Ring Through His Nose
    According to the Citadel Film series book The Films Of Henry Fonda, Rings On Her Fingers was the third of a three picture deal that Rouben Mamoulian had with 20th Century Fox. The other two films done in this package were the Tyrone Power classics, The Mark Of Zorro and Blood And Sand. Would that this film were light years as good as those two were.

    Not that it's bad, but it's strictly second rate Mamoulian and definitely second rate Fonda. This was the period in Fonda's career where he had signed a studio contract to get the role in The Grapes Of Wrath and Darryl Zanuck would be forcing him into things that were second rate. This part that Fonda has here was a ripoff of what he did on loan to Paramount for The Lady Eve.

    Fonda is once again the naive pigeon of some con artists played by Spring Byington and Laird Cregar. They're using Gene Tierney who is lured by the chance of easy money into their nest as the come on in a confidence game. The three rook Fonda out of his life savings, selling him a sailboat they don't own. They think Fonda has millions to spare, but unlike in The Lady Eve, Fonda is a clerk on holiday.

    But he doesn't know Tierney was part of the gag and the two fall for each other. That however interferes with Cregar and Byington's plans to marry Tierney off to a real millionaire, Sheppard Strudwick.

    Rings On Her Fingers is not a bad film, but Fonda who was doing mostly classic roles in The Male Animal and The Lady Eve on loan, back at his home studio was given parts that Zanuck's favorites Tyrone Power and Don Ameche passed on. Fonda hated those years at Fox, hated them more because he wanted to go in the service and Zanuck pulled all kinds of strings to keep him home.

    Fonda played naive characters since his debut in The Farmer Takes A Wife and throughout his career before his war service tried desperately to avoid the typecasting. After Mister Roberts no one thought to cast him that way again, but in his early years it was a struggle to avoid it.

    Best scenes in Rings On Her Fingers involve Fonda and Tierney at a gambling casino run by Henry Stephenson where things are fixed for him to win. Of course Fonda thinks he's found a mathematical formula and his recklessness increases.

    Laird Cregar is good in a most undefined role as a con man. What a loss he was at such a young age.

    Rings On Her Fingers belongs in the lower tier of Henry Fonda films though it does have its moments.
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    • Release date
      • March 20, 1942 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Double or Nothing
    • Filming locations
      • Santa Catalina Island, Channel Islands, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Budget
      • $651,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 26 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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