December 28 movie: Dream Wife. Wasn't I just saying that I liked movies about women who were good at their jobs? Well that's only true if the movie isn't repulsive. Deborah Kerr plays a high-ranking member of the State Department who's working on negotiations for a critical oil deal with an Islamic country. Strangely prophetic job for the 1950s. Anyway, Cary Grant plays her fiance, who pitches a fit because he can't stand being with a woman who has something in her life that matters besides him. To get back at her, Grant proposes to a princess from the Islamic country, who has been trained since birth to be the abject servant of her future husband.
Eventually Grant gets tired of of the princess. Because he realizes how empty and demeaning it would be to have a slave rather than a wife? No, because Kerr teaches the girl about Amelia Bloomer and Harriet Beecher Stowe and she gets uppity. I kid you not, the movie is that bad. I felt dirty after watching this.
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