January 31 movie: The Mating Season. This was a very funny movie starring Gene Tierney and John Lund as newlyweds, but the real star is Thelma Ritter as Lund's heart-of-gold working class mother. Ritter is amazing. She avoids the wedding because her snob son is ashamed of her. Then when she finally goes to meet her new daughter-in-law, Tierney mistakes her for the new cook. Tierney is in a jam, and Ritter, feeling sorry for Tierney and also lacking confidence in herself, goes along with the mistake and poses as the family cook. Miriam Hopkins is also excellent, playing the shrewish mother-in-law with scary perfection, and the movie also features Cora Witherspoon as a snotty queen bee.
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