Strawberry Blonde The (1941)

Strawberry Blonde The (1941)

Directed by Raoul Walsh starring James Cagney Olivia de Havilland Rita Hayworth (in the title role) & Jack Carson and set in a simpler time (around the turn of the 20th Century) this slightly above average romantic comedy drama contains some unusual elements (Cagney’s character is a budding dentist!) but is basically a story about appreciating what you have. Carson as Hugo Barnstead marries Virginia Brush (Hayworth) "stealing" her away from Biff Grimes (Cagney) who later marries Amy Lind (de Havilland) on the rebound. Years later Biff gets to see the reality of what it would have been like to have been married to shallow Virginia (when he’s asked to pull Hugo’s tooth) and hence better appreciates his own wife. Alan Hale plays Cagney’s "bar rat" old man; George Tobias plays a friend Nicholas Pappalas; George Reeves plays a strapping young lad who scraps with the older Biff; and Una O’Connor also appears. Heinz Roemheld’s Score was Oscar nominated. Twin brothers Julius Epstein (Four Daughters (1938)) & Philip Epstein adapted James Hagan’s play One Sunday Afternoon (which had been filmed once before by Paramount with Gary Cooper) for Warner Bros. who had Walsh remake it as a musical in 1948 with Dennis Morgan Dorothy Malone Janis Page & Don DeFore respectively (ironically Alan Hale Jr. also appears).

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