This farce may not be the best thing Mitchell Leisen ever did but it's a charmer nevertheless and it gave Thelma Ritter one of her best roles as well as having a cracker of a script from Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch and Richard L. Breen. It's the old mistaken identity plot with Ritter, who happens to be the mother of new groom John Lund, being mistaken for the hired help by Lund's new socialite wife, Gene Tierney. Don't even think of asking how this happens; farces are never founded on realism. Best you just sit back and enjoy what ensues and savor three first-rate comic performances from Ritter, Tierney, (an excellent light comedienne), and Miriam Hopkins as Tierney's snob of a mother. Only Lund, never much of an actor, (he only made 28 films and retired in 1962), lets the side down. Otherwise, "The Mating Season" is a real treat of a feelgood movie.
Monday, 20 May 2019
THE MATING SEASON **
This farce may not be the best thing Mitchell Leisen ever did but it's a charmer nevertheless and it gave Thelma Ritter one of her best roles as well as having a cracker of a script from Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch and Richard L. Breen. It's the old mistaken identity plot with Ritter, who happens to be the mother of new groom John Lund, being mistaken for the hired help by Lund's new socialite wife, Gene Tierney. Don't even think of asking how this happens; farces are never founded on realism. Best you just sit back and enjoy what ensues and savor three first-rate comic performances from Ritter, Tierney, (an excellent light comedienne), and Miriam Hopkins as Tierney's snob of a mother. Only Lund, never much of an actor, (he only made 28 films and retired in 1962), lets the side down. Otherwise, "The Mating Season" is a real treat of a feelgood movie.
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