you belong to me

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July 27 movie: You Belong to Me. This movie was adorable. A screwball comedy starring Henry Fonda as an idle millionaire and Barbara Stanwyck as a lady doctor. They meet on vacation, marry on a whim, then Fonda reveals himself to be insanely jealous of her patients and her time away from him, even though she warned him in advance. But get this: the movie presents him as wrong! And she doesn't quit her job to become a homemaker! On the contrary, she convinces him that his ugly jealousy is caused by idleness and lack of ambition, and he'd be a better person if he had a job, like her. It's kind of amazing for a movie of that era. Plus of course, Fonda and Stanwyck have amazing chemistry, and they get some good sparkly dialogue. An example: "I didn't know you had younger men patients." "What did you think you were?"

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