June 1 movie: June Bride. Good lord I'm behind in writing up movies. Actually I haven't watched hardly any in the past month, but still that's no excuse. I will get caught up at some point, but for now I'm skipping ahead to today's movie.
Which is June Bride, a Bette Davis comedy I'd seen before. Davis and Robert Montgomery are old flames who end up working together on a ladies magazine (actually she's the editor and he works for her), doing a story on a wedding in Indianapolis. The wonderful Mary Wickes has a supporting role as a stylist for the magazine. The movie is hilarious and I loved it up until the very end, when Davis throws away her career to "carry luggage all around Europe" for Montgomery so he can go back to being an unsuccessful foreign correspondent. I guess it was too much to ask that in 1948 they could make a movie about a career woman who gets to keep her job. Ugh. I want to rewatch The Sweet Smell of Success now.
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I saw "Sweet Smell of Success" at a film society in London in 1960 and it made a deep impression on me. As I remember, Burt Lancaster was superb, and Tony Curtis was - well, Tony Curtis (Nuf said.) One of my favorite Burt Lancaster movies is "Elmer Gantry", but, of course, you could have guessed that. WYBE in Philly is scheduled to run Metropolis this Saturday night. I am hoping they show the new cleaned up print. WYBE now runs Dolby Pro Logic II on its audio, so if they're using the DVD, the sound track should be great.