Movie Review ? Penny Serenade (1941)

An insignificant (by today's standards) of the children melodrama in which Cary Grant delivers so well that he was nominated for an Oscar as best actor. George Stevens directed the script by Morrie Ryskind.

The entire film unfolds as a series of linear flashbacks, each LP, released by the record of a dismal Julie (Irene Dunne), a play just before leaving his home forever. The reason? It seems not all stay in their marriagekeep it there. We soon learn why and all the tragic events that led to that sad moment.

The first few times around the vinyl in a "Memory Hole" by which we ourselves is dissolved in part of life in the past by Julie, we love as a manifestation of the creativity of the filmmakers. But the sixth or seventh time that happens, we ask ourselves how often we have to suffer the same idea tirelessly mechanics. It ages very quickly prove that the coherenceis not always a virtue.

Cary Grant plays the young and fiery newspaper reporter Roger Adams, who married the love of his life, Julie (played by Irene Dunne), on the eve of his departure for Tokyo to take over the Bureau of Japan on his newspaper. It also happens to be Christmas to Eve Snow with mandatory (as in another film by Cary Grant, Bishop's Wife (1948)).

Once established in Tokyo to join him, Julie Roger, in his new digs with a family full of opulenceJapanese servant. Julie is happy and surprised that Roger can be argued that the level of luxury with a content of a journalist. We recall an earlier scene in which her friend Applejack (Edgar Buchanan), warned against a journalist. There is something shady past or Roger would like to know more?

Two interesting things in the "sequence of Tokyo, both of which go to Roger's character and the strength of the script in question.

Infirst scene, has announced that Roger Julie left her job because of his family inheritance. Now you can around the world before he was down and a family, even while going to the validity, has a dislike for Roger on Children jokes (the beach scene) shown readily.

It turns out that Roger calls a "legacy" is only about ten thousand dollars, which further reduced to $ 8,000 after the payment of outstanding invoices. It is a disappointment for Julie. He throwsRoger actions "childish." Film we see this model for the rest of: Roger will always appear when a man with great ideas and very confident, but not in a position to offer the bacon at the end.

The second important development in the "sequence of Tokyo" is the earthquake, the level of their home. Since we are on the "reward" this totally unexpected natural disaster continue to see the film abruptly shifts back to San Francisco, where Julie was in a hospital andwe learn that they are not able to have more children. But they have to go to Japan to get to this point is a controversial issue script, remained unanswered. It could not happen to the fate of Julie, if she had another accident closer to home? Why do they have to go to Japan is not clear. The entire "episode Tokyo" stands out as a joke without a punch line.

The rest of this drama unfolds as the story of the couple's desperate attempt to adopt a child, andonce adopted, not lose it.

There is one more "child sequence" in the middle of the film that independent comedy could just part one. Grant shines again in this order, almost like a homage to the early years in his youth as a mime and acrobat with the company of Bob Pender's. We see the young couple is going through many of the fears in caring for their adopted daughter, five weeks. (Asleep need or stop breathing?)

I am soinexperienced, do not even know how to keep a baby or a bath and change her diaper.

But we can also contribute to the progress of a father-daughter relationship between Grant and his daughter noted, despite the fact that he originally asked for a 2-year-old boy with curly blond hair and blue eyes. "

For the first two years of the new Constitution by Roger week by veteran print Applejack helped, seems to be what the end of the month. But then does his businessa marked slowdown and suddenly he is a man without means.

Since I am still at a "trial period" in the process of adoption, so is the adoption agency ever vigilant in the person of Miss Oliver (Beulah Bondi) Roger to justice. The court should the girl, because a family without income is not a place for every child to grow

However, Cary Grant in another great scene gives this monologue really about the pain of separation from the excitedhis daughter, and the absurdity of taking a child again, as if it were a machine or a mobile won because the owner is in default. His appointment of a desperate father wins the day and the court allows him to take home.

After so many gramophone in turn dissolves into flashbacks, we see the child grow up and take a small part in a comedy Christmas in the school his parents very proud watching them and give their full support, despite a small incident on thePhase ruined his day.

Then disaster strikes as it should in a tragedy. We read in a letter to Miss Oliver, the child died after an illness. Since up to this point we are not a scene where the child suffered from any physical ailments seen, it also has the impression that they developed a site above the "earthquake in Tokyo."

After the death of the daughter of Roger and Julie, their union begins to unravel quickly. The girl was the bond that held themtogether. Not that she's gone, everything is left behind the memories and the songs played by Julie one last time to his gramophone ? and we zoom back to the present.

think just as we understand that their marriage gone out the window forever (Roger is actually take the suitcases to wait for the car out there) that this unexpected phone call from Miss Oliver, you get the good news: He has a 2 year old boy with curly blond hair and blue eyes "and would interested in adopting him? Whatwas convenient for a happiness, time and action unit!

Of course I have the opportunity to jump and change your mind on the spot ? this might after all be separated. There is still hope for the future and we will leave as they renovate their ideas on how the space for her new baby.

In 7 of 10 thanks to a superb performance by Cary Grant and despite the weak script and the director-driven formula.

Movie Quiz: Cary Grantwas very happy, the main roles with Irene Dunne share. Reportedly said that Dunne was "the best actress fragrance", he worked in a movie.

Trivia: Philip Barry wrote the original theater performance of the two films, both in defining the careers of film Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in the starring role: HOLIDAY (1938) and The Philadelphia Story (1941).

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