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A Collection of Love Stories starring Carole Lombard, 8 Oct. 2007

By Rama Rao (Annandale, VA, USA) –

This review is from: Carole Lombard: The Glamour Collection [DVD] [1936] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)

This is a set of six movies on two discs; Man Of the World, We’re Not Dressing and Hands across the Table; and Love before Breakfast, The Princess Comes Across, and True Confession.

Man Of the World
Romancing a Smooth Criminal! – This is a love story set in depression era (1931) between a hustler and wealthy young woman. William Powell plays Michael Trevor, a smooth criminal, who makes living by blackmailing wealthy people. As an investigative journalist, he comes to know dirty little secrets of rich, and then threatens them that he will reveal the secrets unless he is bribed. His crooked life gets the better of him, and thus he is forced to leave Unites States. While in Paris, he goes after a wealthy American, but falls in love with his beautiful niece, Mary Kendall (Carole Lombard). Mary, a naïve young woman thinks Michael is an honest and caring man until his assistant brilliantly played by Wynne Gibson (as Irene Hoffa), threatens Michael that his way of living will be revealed to Mary and the police. Michael reflects on his life, and convinces himself that he has to come clean with Mary about his past. Mary takes his story positively and still would love to marry him, but old ways never disappear. He eventually blackmails Mary’s uncle and walks off with a hefty check, and decides to leave for South Africa accompanied by Irene. Michael realizes that something don’t look right, in a sudden change of heart he destroys the check. The movie is directed by Richard Wallace and story is by Herman Mankiewicz. It is unfortunate that this movie has bundle of talents but not utilized well. Carole Lombard is beautiful, and Wynne Gibson is outstanding as an aggressive assistant of Michael. William Powell does not fit well in the role of a con man, but soon the “Thin Man” series (1934) with Myrna Loy changes his career.

We’re Not Dressing
Doris’s Island; an Unrealistic Romantic Story – This is another unrealistic love story set in depression era (1934) starring Carole Lombard and Bing Crosby. Beautiful debonair Doris Worthington (Carole Lombard) entertains her guests on her private yacht in the Pacific Ocean. The company includes, sailor Stephen Jones (Bing Crosby), Doris’s friend Edith (Ethel Merman), Uncle Hubert (Leon Errol), and two brothers; Prince Michael Stofani (Ray Milland), and Prince Alexander Stofani (Jay Henry). When the ship sinks after an accident, they take refuge in an island.

Stephen is the only one who has the practical knowledge to survive in the island and others pretty much depend on him until they find two biologists named George Martin (George Burns) and Gracie Martin (Gracie Allen). By the time their trip to home is arranged, the tough talking sailor falls in love with the rich debonair disappointing the two young princes who are competing for the hand of Doris in marriage. The highlights of the movie are fine tunes that include: “A Sailor Must Be True to Any One Girl,” “May I?” “She Reminds Me of You,” “Goodnight, Lovely Little Lady,” “Love Thy Neighbor,” and “Once in a Blue Moon” All sung by Bing Crosby. Carole Lombard offers a great performance as a hard-to-get love sick young lady, and Bing Crosby is very entertaining with his songs.

Hands across the Table
Adorable Screwball Slapstick: A Wonderful Love Story – This could be considered as an earlier version of Erich Segal’s Love Story, but the twist is that this movie is set not on Harvard University campus, but in New York during Great depression (1935). Carole Lombard plays Regis Allen, an adorable single woman living and working in Manhattan as a manicurist who is looking for rich husband. Her manager is more than helpful to direct her to the rich clients of the salon. When Regis meets Allen Macklyn (Ralph Bellamy), love doesn’t strike for her even though he is everything she likes; rich, generous, loving, and handsome, but there is one problem, he is crippled. When her manager directs Regis to another rich client, Theodore Drew III (Fred McMurray), who is handsome, entertaining and known to be rich, luck seem to be turning her side. But she learns later that he’s actually poor; his family fortune crashed in 1929, but he is engaged to be married to a rich lady. It is a strange love triangle involving Regis, Allen and Theodore. The two men try to outsmart each other to win the hands of Regis

The movie has an interesting scenario, when Theodore misses his boat to Bermuda while his fiancée’s family plans the wedding. He stays with Regis for a week so his fiancée thinks he’s in Bermuda. There are some hilarious incidents when Regis helps him get tan under tanning light, and later she calls his fiancée impersonating a telephone operator linking Theodore from Bermuda. Carole Lombard is not only beautiful but spectacular as a young woman in love. Both Carole Lombard and Fred McMurray make a lovely couple in love; highly recommended.

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Definitely at hit and miss box set!, 19 Sept. 2011

By Tinksjane (East Anglia) –

  

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This to me is a wonderful box set with different movies along a similar theme! However, where it loses out is some are of pretty decent quality in terms of restoration and sounds where as others are just not! Such a shame.

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