Seeing this on the shelf of my local library,I decided to give this movie a chance and hope for the best. The title first of all told me that this would be a "tear-jerker",the kind of movie I'm not really into but I checked it out just the same.
No doubt after it started I could certainly see why men in Hollywood wanted to be with Liz. I asked myself while watching though,why would a free spirit like her want to tie herself down with an overly-serious person like Van Johnson's character?
I'm not saying he doesn't show emotion but sharing a kiss on the street hardly seems a plausible way for two to fall in love with each other. (Then again,in life,strange things do happen.)
I did get caught up in their romantic and idealistic ways but of course was waiting for the disaster to strike.
Then they hit : His inability to sell a novel to a publisher. Her still carrying on as if she weren't married. His friendship with Eva Gabor making her (Taylor) jealous for no good reason. His alcoholism and (what we're clued into in the first scene of the movie) her untimely demise from pneumonia. Quite the soap opera.
I found Taylor's character dying from this to be a bit ridiculous. Okay,she got locked out and caught in the rain and the cold with snow on the ground. She gets to her sister's place soaking wet and passes out. Now,why not just get her upstairs and into a hot bath for Pete's sake?!
Any believability the film had before that went out the window for me and after her character is gone,the only thing one is left with is Johnson's character getting his daughter back from Donna Reed. I couldn't stand her character at all for she seems to hate Van Johnson's character without good reason,though she has one later.
I will admit when it comes to scenes of parents and kids,I do get sentimental & a little emotional but then seeing Johnson & daughter reunited is a wonderful touching end to the film.
One laughable scene in the movie is when Johnson & Gabor are in the Monte Carlo car race and they skid in the rain into a wooden fence. The skidding is clearly a stock-recorded sound effect,that sounds like it's from a Warner Brothers cartoon!
I rate five stars for the above listed reasons,the acting is good here but some aspects are just too unbelievable to accept. (Beware of $1 DVD copies of this movie,their quality is poor.) (END)
No doubt after it started I could certainly see why men in Hollywood wanted to be with Liz. I asked myself while watching though,why would a free spirit like her want to tie herself down with an overly-serious person like Van Johnson's character?
I'm not saying he doesn't show emotion but sharing a kiss on the street hardly seems a plausible way for two to fall in love with each other. (Then again,in life,strange things do happen.)
I did get caught up in their romantic and idealistic ways but of course was waiting for the disaster to strike.
Then they hit : His inability to sell a novel to a publisher. Her still carrying on as if she weren't married. His friendship with Eva Gabor making her (Taylor) jealous for no good reason. His alcoholism and (what we're clued into in the first scene of the movie) her untimely demise from pneumonia. Quite the soap opera.
I found Taylor's character dying from this to be a bit ridiculous. Okay,she got locked out and caught in the rain and the cold with snow on the ground. She gets to her sister's place soaking wet and passes out. Now,why not just get her upstairs and into a hot bath for Pete's sake?!
Any believability the film had before that went out the window for me and after her character is gone,the only thing one is left with is Johnson's character getting his daughter back from Donna Reed. I couldn't stand her character at all for she seems to hate Van Johnson's character without good reason,though she has one later.
I will admit when it comes to scenes of parents and kids,I do get sentimental & a little emotional but then seeing Johnson & daughter reunited is a wonderful touching end to the film.
One laughable scene in the movie is when Johnson & Gabor are in the Monte Carlo car race and they skid in the rain into a wooden fence. The skidding is clearly a stock-recorded sound effect,that sounds like it's from a Warner Brothers cartoon!
I rate five stars for the above listed reasons,the acting is good here but some aspects are just too unbelievable to accept. (Beware of $1 DVD copies of this movie,their quality is poor.) (END)