I have always loved Monty Woolley in any role, as any character he played. This movie was loaded with great actors and a lot of fun to watch. And it was a movie I had never seen, and I've been watching old Hollywood movies exclusively since I was a child, and I'm a grandmother of five. So it made this movie all the more enjoyable.
Constance Bennett was lovely, a very delicate beauty. Thelma Ritter was gabby and great. Marilyn Monroe and Jean Peters, young and pert. The cast women are excellent in this Monty Woolley vehicle. He always worked with the best actors.
The 'good ol' days' except if you were black or brown, were in Korea or being beat by your husband. Not to mention the booze and morphine addictions. C'mon, just enjoy the movie. God bless.
Thank you so much for this upload! What a brilliant little gem of a film. More than 70 years later, the messages in this film still resonate in our turbulent world.
The themes featured in this film about the ideas of American business pratices show how the country has changed since 1951 . The idea of intregity and honourability have long since faded from the landscape
I have never seen film with Monty Woolley that wasn't worth seeing again. Same with Thema Ritter. Thanks for posting this. See the Pied Piper, Since You Went Away or Tomorrow is Forever.
@@billolsen4360 Another super classic film. They just don't make them like these anymore. I don't even think they know how. These were real actors who came from the stage, they were capable of everything. Singing, dancing, comedy, drama, etc.
I loved seeing the vintage typewriter. It brought me happy childhood memory. My sister and I were given a typewriter to play with. The keys were forever getting stuck together. What fun. Today is 20 August 2024.
Love seeing old movies with old machinery in factories. I am in manufacturing and am fascinated with old machinery and the manufacturing processes of the past. I have actually revived some old manufacturing processes and found they are still as profitable as modern processes. One of the processes I saw in a back yard workshop in India, and was very impressed by the craftsmen's work out put and consistent quality, and set up a similar process in my factory Down Under.
This is one of those classics that crowned the golden age of the screwball comedies brought to us by the likes of Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitsch, Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder. What surprised me in the opening credits was who wrote the original story, Paddy Chayefsky. This has prompted me to reconsider the nature of his finest movie, that incisive critique of the societal influence of television, "Network". Having watched his 1978 film so many times, and focussed solely on its scathing prescience about the still strengthening pernicious power of the evolving news media, I failed to appreciate how rich the story is in dark humour. I'm going to have to rewatch it as a legitimate heir of the era of all those screwball pictures, but one that's so foreboding, I've always forgotten to laugh - a black comedy at its most tragic.
No women at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Times have changed for the better in some ways. Still like the old fashioned manners and ettiquite. Those niceties of kindness getting more rare every day. It was respect. People had respect for others.
I remember 5 cents candy too ! The thrill was walking to a little store with my friend, & taking our nickels as we searched over the candy rack for what we would buy . Do you remember CLARK BARS, in a orange wrapper ? I have not seen them in ages but I often chose that to spend my nickel on. It was a innocent time . People had values .
What an absolute joy to watch a real classy family movie as this, when men are men and women are women , a family together and no mention of ptsd,triggered or racism, imagine that.
What an enjoyable movie!!! I thoroughly enjoyed this classic movie so very much!!! Love Monty Woolley and Thelma Ritter ❤ Thank you for posting. Blessings.
Loved it. Loved it. Loved it. 😊😊😊❤❤❤❤ So uplifting. Great storyline. Ritter is always so funny, and spot on with her delivery. She crac,s me up. Woolley such a gentleman actor and gorgeous. Thank u for such an enjoyable film.
The guy that plays the attorney was the neighbor of mine, and I used to see him on stuff like get smart. I didn't know he was in a movie. He had kind of quit working in the movie business by this time and walked with a cane and he also sold real estate in the area of Brentwood, Los Angeles
I can remember when nurses (I'm a retired nurse) were expected to give up their chair for a doctor & to get him a cup of coffee if he wanted it. The secretary (Marilyn Monroe) was very subservient in this movie.
@@neildickson5394 Yes, l agree Of her co-star Monty in 'The Misfits' (1960) she had said, "Boy, l thot I was messed up" Too bad the mob killed her by ramming drugs up her hind end as payback to RFK But life is nuts and at some point we ll all be where she is It s just a question of when
Monty n Thelma were the best loved everything they were in don’t makem like this anymore nice to see all the Golden Classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood back in the days when Hollywood had Class now just a swamp like Washington DC
I don't recall ever reading about Marilyn in this movie but its a pleasure to see her seem so relaxed and confident. She and David Wayne also appeared in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Thanks for posting this! Another captivating story by three-time Oscar winner Paddy Chayefsky. Monty Wooley ("John Hodges") was 62 years old here. His background was in academia and his acting career started later in his life on Broadway and movies. He's probably best known for his portrayal of "Sheridan Whiteside" in 1941's "The Man Who Came To Dinner." Thelma Ritter ("Della Hodges") was 48 here. Jean Peters ("Alice Hodges") and Marilyn Monroe ("Harriet" - the secretary) were both 24, David Wayne ("Joe Elliott") was 36, and Constance Bennett ("Lucille McKinley") was 46. Some of these actors worked together in other productions. Ritter and Monroe were in Monroe's penultimate movie "The Misfits" in 1961 along with Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift and Eli Wallach. Wayne and Monroe were in the segment "The Cop and the Anthem" in 1952's "O. Henry's Full House" with Charles Laughton! Peters and Monroe were in 1953's "Niagara" with Joseph Cotten. What is notable about Monroe's casting here, in addition to the three others mentioned above, is that it departed from her career-damaging typecasting and allowed her to display her wider-range acting skills. I highly recommend all three!
“Sometimes Eliot, you’re a very stupid man.” One of the most polite yet devastating classy insults one can hurl at their targets. Only can it be done with such force and class in the old films. Hilarious 😆.
diabetics can eat cake; and candy and such.; just adjust the insulin up a bit to cover the added carbs. An old misconception that still continues today
You better check blood sugar spikes with a CGM after eating that cake, taking more insulin is not good. Current protocols suggest limiting carbs, especially simple carbs like sugar, and cake.
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Imagine a world-class orchestra at a printing company, these old movies have class!
I have always loved Monty Woolley in any role, as any character he played. This movie was loaded with great actors and a lot of fun to watch. And it was a movie I had never seen, and I've been watching old Hollywood movies exclusively since I was a child, and I'm a grandmother of five. So it made this movie all the more enjoyable.
If u have not seen Mr.Monty,in who came to dinner", a must see🤗.
Betty Davis,oh many name actors in it and penquiens!
@@kindredspirit3875 I loved those Penguins! 😀
Love it❤
Job 33:25
Revelation 21:3,4
John 5:28
@@noorgonzalez1076Psalm 83: 18
This movie was what helped my Brother get through a bad break up.
Constance Bennett was lovely, a very delicate beauty. Thelma Ritter was gabby and great. Marilyn Monroe and Jean Peters, young and pert. The cast women are excellent in this Monty Woolley vehicle. He always worked with the best actors.
How charming this was and is. I love this type of film, oh, the good ole days....thank you!
The 'good ol' days' except if you were black or brown, were in Korea or being beat by your husband. Not to mention the booze and morphine addictions. C'mon, just enjoy the movie. God bless.
These old films are priceless!
Thelma Ritter, Monty Woolley! True treasures of the cinema....💪❤
Thank you so much for this upload! What a brilliant little gem of a film. More than 70 years later, the messages in this film still resonate in our turbulent world.
It should!
It should!
@@MsJackrussell2 These films are timeless.
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Isaiah 65:21
Isaiah 35:5,6
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The themes featured in this film about the ideas of American business pratices show how the country has changed since 1951 . The idea of intregity and honourability have long since faded from the landscape
A gem of a movie with Monty Wooley and Thelma Riiter
Thank you all
And Marilyn Monroe
This film sparkles 😊 .
Thank you all
Loved this. A message for today if only people would listen,
What an incredibly charming film! I don't remember when a film has touched me in such an uplifting way.
An excellent movie. The old movies are always the best.
I have never seen film with Monty Woolley that wasn't worth seeing again. Same with Thema Ritter. Thanks for posting this. See the Pied Piper, Since You Went Away or Tomorrow is Forever.
I’d forgotten I’d seen this a few months ago. But, oh, it was so good, I enjoyed it all over again! Please, more movies like this!!
Total agreement.
Watch Thelma in "Mating Season"
"Rear Windiw" she was the best.
Thelma & Monty are great examples of acting as a profession
Really liked him in The Bishop's Wife with Loretta Young, David Niven & Cary Grant.
@@billolsen4360 Another super classic film. They just don't make them like these anymore. I don't even think they know how. These were real actors who came from the stage, they were capable of everything. Singing, dancing, comedy, drama, etc.
What a great dancer Mr. Wooley was!
I always liked Monty,great movie!!!😁
There was that one movie with Cary Grant ( Cole Porter ) . In this film , I love the way Monty would tell off some of the characters .
I loved seeing the vintage typewriter. It brought me happy childhood memory. My sister and I were given a typewriter to play with. The keys were forever getting stuck together. What fun.
Today is 20 August 2024.
Love seeing old movies with old machinery in factories. I am in manufacturing and am fascinated with old machinery and the manufacturing processes of the past.
I have actually revived some old manufacturing processes and found they are still as profitable as modern processes. One of the processes I saw in a back yard workshop in India, and was very impressed by the craftsmen's work out put and consistent quality, and set up a similar process in my factory Down Under.
This is one of those classics that crowned the golden age of the screwball comedies brought to us by the likes of Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitsch, Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder. What surprised me in the opening credits was who wrote the original story, Paddy Chayefsky. This has prompted me to reconsider the nature of his finest movie, that incisive critique of the societal influence of television, "Network". Having watched his 1978 film so many times, and focussed solely on its scathing prescience about the still strengthening pernicious power of the evolving news media, I failed to appreciate how rich the story is in dark humour. I'm going to have to rewatch it as a legitimate heir of the era of all those screwball pictures, but one that's so foreboding, I've always forgotten to laugh - a black comedy at its most tragic.
Im quite surprised by how much i enjoyed that - First class cast every single one of them
Love these old B/W movies! What a really good movie..
I remember when candy bars were a nickel. The big ones. Never bought a soup bone.
No women at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Times have changed for the better in some ways. Still like the old fashioned manners and ettiquite. Those niceties of kindness getting more rare every day. It was respect. People had respect for others.
Honey bake ham..used to give the bones away ..then a small charge. Now not at all!!
Housemate paid $13 for a beef soup bone a few years ago. I always saved the ham bone for bean soup.
I remember 5 cents candy too ! The thrill was walking to a little store with my friend, & taking our nickels as we searched over the candy rack for what we would buy . Do you remember CLARK BARS, in a orange wrapper ? I have not seen them in ages but I often chose that to spend my nickel on. It was a innocent time . People had values .
I remember when you had to start paying for soup bones. It was when supermarkets came along. I never paid at the butchers.
Nice to see Thelma Ritter in a starring role. ❤
A great movie and great acting
much truth in being 'true' to your self an others... fun movie....
What an incredible movie! Intelligent and funny..
Just lovely OLD GOOD America and Americans, eh? cheers from Canada! Thank you for this film!
You can't help, but fall in love with this movie. Thanks for the upload. Roger
Bonnie Prince Charles. I'll be cracking up over that for a long time!😂
Yes, and the mention of Princess Elizabeth too!
What an absolute joy to watch a real classy family movie as this, when men are men and women are women , a family together and no mention of ptsd,triggered or racism, imagine that.
Just a delightful and lighthearted family film about the value of dignity. Loved his speech.
Yes, great movie. Keep them coming!
All the actors were extremely brilliant . I love the dancing scene ... it's a definite hit . 😊
I had to laugh. At one point, they refer to Queen Elizabeth's baby, bonny Prince Charlie!
This movie was wonderful. So happy I decided to watch. So many life lessons.😊
What an enjoyable movie!!! I thoroughly enjoyed this classic movie so very much!!! Love Monty Woolley and Thelma Ritter ❤ Thank you for posting. Blessings.
Wonderful, just wonderful.
Thelma and Monty....erfect.
Always enjoy old movies. Thanks for the videos.
Wonderful movie! They don’t make them like that anymore. I thoroughly enjoyed this film.
Loved it. Loved it. Loved it. 😊😊😊❤❤❤❤ So uplifting. Great storyline. Ritter is always so funny, and spot on with her delivery. She crac,s me up. Woolley such a gentleman actor and gorgeous. Thank u for such an enjoyable film.
Excellent ! Un bon moment de détente, comme on les aime !
The. B E S T MOVIE IN AGES
THANKYOU !!
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This was delightful; I’m just surprised that the cake survived. 😉👏
"With the cost of soup bone going up" 🤣🤣🤣 and it continues to rise in 2024 😳
What a wonderful laugh out loud movie - A real Gem! Thank you for posting it and I do hope you find more movies like this to post.
This movie was great. Lesson to learn, life has its ups and downs, but you have the ability to make things right.
The guy that plays the attorney was the neighbor of mine, and I used to see him on stuff like get smart.
I didn't know he was in a movie. He had kind of quit working in the movie business by this time and walked with a cane and he also sold real estate in the area of Brentwood, Los Angeles
Great story!
Released June 15th,1951
Everybody in these old movies look ten years older than they say.
The message of this movie still RINGS TRUE!!!
I remember Ritter from Hitchcock movie Rear Window.
She's great in All About Eve, too
Thank You very much. I truly enjoyed this film.
I LOVE these old whimsical films!!! Thank you
Marilyn Monroe in one of her earliest roles. Lord but she was beautiful. What a little gem this picture is~
Nothing quite like a great bag of wind
But this time he's a more charming wind bag
I Loved This Movie 😊
I can remember when nurses (I'm a retired nurse) were expected to give up their chair for a doctor & to get him a cup of coffee if he wanted it. The secretary (Marilyn Monroe) was very subservient in this movie.
Marlyn Monroe is in this film. Wow!
I ve never seen Marlyn quite so lucid
@@jimcrawford3185I've never seen Marilyn not Lucid, the girl had it all, and knew how to use it. There will never be another Marilyn!
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Yes, l agree
Of her co-star Monty in 'The Misfits' (1960) she had said,
"Boy, l thot I was messed up"
Too bad the mob killed her by ramming drugs up her hind end as payback to RFK
But life is nuts and at some point we ll all be where she is
It s just a question of when
Wonderful movie, thank you for posting it 🥰
Terrific film. Thank you so much.
Really a nice film Wonderful !
What an entertaining film.really worth watching.
Monty n Thelma were the best loved everything they were in don’t makem like this anymore nice to see all the Golden Classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood back in the days when Hollywood had Class now just a swamp like Washington DC
Monty is excellent. Got to check out his other films!
Wow, I've never seen Marylin Monroe in a role where she doesn't use that breathy tone she's famous for. Here she actually sounds like a grown woman!
Astute comment!
A very entertaining movie. Thoroughly enjoyed watching. Thanks.
Loved this! Thanks so much.
Thoroughly enjoyable film. Thank you!
Loved it! Thank you for this lovely film.
Wow what a Great movie fabulous from beginning to the end💙💙💙💙💙
Gorgeous film! 🧡
I don't recall ever reading about Marilyn in this movie but its a pleasure to see her seem so relaxed and confident. She and David Wayne also appeared in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Oops.... It was How to Marry a Millionaire... But Gentlemen prefer Blondes is a great film too!
Far too many commercials $ too bad, a good “old” movie!
What a Great movie! Thank you!
I enjoyed that. Thank you.
Great cast! Fun to watch!
I enjoyed this Movie Thanks😊
She was FANTASTIC!
Always amazing how many actors in these old movies that never “ made it”
Such a gem! I Really enjoyed it.😊
Very enjoyable movie!
What a finely crafted farce
Thanks for posting this! Another captivating story by three-time Oscar winner Paddy Chayefsky.
Monty Wooley ("John Hodges") was 62 years old here. His background was in academia and his acting career started later in his life on Broadway and movies. He's probably best known for his portrayal of "Sheridan Whiteside" in 1941's "The Man Who Came To Dinner."
Thelma Ritter ("Della Hodges") was 48 here. Jean Peters ("Alice Hodges") and Marilyn Monroe ("Harriet" - the secretary) were both 24, David Wayne ("Joe Elliott") was 36, and Constance Bennett ("Lucille McKinley") was 46.
Some of these actors worked together in other productions. Ritter and Monroe were in Monroe's penultimate movie "The Misfits" in 1961 along with Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift and Eli Wallach. Wayne and Monroe were in the segment "The Cop and the Anthem" in 1952's "O. Henry's Full House" with Charles Laughton! Peters and Monroe were in 1953's "Niagara" with Joseph Cotten.
What is notable about Monroe's casting here, in addition to the three others mentioned above, is that it departed from her career-damaging typecasting and allowed her to display her wider-range acting skills. I highly recommend all three!
Good old Monty Woolley
Absolutely loved it 😍 🍿🎥👏
I really enjoyed this movie !!!
Our older gentleman actors were so fine to watch!
“Sometimes Eliot, you’re a very stupid man.”
One of the most polite yet devastating classy insults one can hurl at their targets. Only can it be done with such force and class in the old films. Hilarious 😆.
I had a lot of chuckles throughout this movie..1.13 Min... Hodges you're fired was one of them......😊
Monty is fabulous in all movies I've seen him in and Marilyn Monroe talking normally.
EXCELLENT!!
David Wayne and Marilyn were in How to marry a Millionaire!
diabetics can eat cake; and candy and such.; just adjust the insulin up a bit to cover the added carbs. An old misconception that still continues today
You better check blood sugar spikes with a CGM after eating that cake, taking more insulin is not good. Current protocols suggest limiting carbs, especially simple carbs like sugar, and cake.
Thankyou 🎉
❤🎉wow just wow ❤🎉
wonderful ❣
Lovely movie, Thank you. You should add, Marilyn Monroe, in your description. She plays the secretary.
2 mins 44 : the old
guy with the
Piccolo ...🤔🎼🦉
the expressions
on harpist and
conductor's
faces ! 🤔😊🎼
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