It seems to me that romances were terrible in every era. And since I'm expressing an unpopular opinion--Gary Cooper sucked.
A free-spirited, spoiled, rich, society girl named Kay Dowling (Carole Lombard) was sent west to "the ranch" for a little reformation after she embarrassed her father by dating a married man. While on the Wyoming ranch she decided to have a little fun. She would make cow hand Tom McNair (Gary Cooper) fall in love with her before she left.
What do you think happened? If you said that she fell in love as well then you'd be correct. I know it was an easy guess, afterall she was a woman and it was the 1930's, so what was a woman doing if she wasn't falling in love? The hardest, coldest, most married of women fell in love.
*See "It Pays to Advertise," "Girls About Town," "Waterloo Bridge," "Working Girls," "The Big Gamble," "Lady Refuses," or "Men of Chance" for an example.
Kay forsook her cushy lifestyle to be a cow hand's wife. She lasted a full year before she ran off. Understandably, Kay found it near impossible to go from high society living to scrubbing and cleaning a log cabin.
In the end she went back to Tom because "romance." But if we were to be honest, it's because she was an impetuous, flighty young woman who didn't know what she wanted. The implication at the end was that she was ready to make ranch living work. If the movie continued another ten minutes we'd probably see her another year later bailing on Tom again because ranch living wasn't for her.
"I Take This Woman" was a basic, dumbed down, unimaginative movie about the spoiled rich girl having to live a simple working class life. "Overboard" would do a much better job of the the same thing decades later.
Free on YouTube.
A free-spirited, spoiled, rich, society girl named Kay Dowling (Carole Lombard) was sent west to "the ranch" for a little reformation after she embarrassed her father by dating a married man. While on the Wyoming ranch she decided to have a little fun. She would make cow hand Tom McNair (Gary Cooper) fall in love with her before she left.
What do you think happened? If you said that she fell in love as well then you'd be correct. I know it was an easy guess, afterall she was a woman and it was the 1930's, so what was a woman doing if she wasn't falling in love? The hardest, coldest, most married of women fell in love.
*See "It Pays to Advertise," "Girls About Town," "Waterloo Bridge," "Working Girls," "The Big Gamble," "Lady Refuses," or "Men of Chance" for an example.
Kay forsook her cushy lifestyle to be a cow hand's wife. She lasted a full year before she ran off. Understandably, Kay found it near impossible to go from high society living to scrubbing and cleaning a log cabin.
In the end she went back to Tom because "romance." But if we were to be honest, it's because she was an impetuous, flighty young woman who didn't know what she wanted. The implication at the end was that she was ready to make ranch living work. If the movie continued another ten minutes we'd probably see her another year later bailing on Tom again because ranch living wasn't for her.
"I Take This Woman" was a basic, dumbed down, unimaginative movie about the spoiled rich girl having to live a simple working class life. "Overboard" would do a much better job of the the same thing decades later.
Free on YouTube.