{"id":10142,"date":"2015-09-03T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10142"},"modified":"2015-08-30T15:41:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T20:41:28","slug":"the-devil-and-miss-jones-1941-sam-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10142","title":{"rendered":"The Devil and Miss Jones (1941, Sam Wood)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Would be a decent enough movie – good concept but plot problems and sometimes clunky direction – but oh, the cast! A few months after The Lady Eve<\/a><\/em>, someone had the smarts to hire a bunch of Preston Sturges players (Coburn, Demarest, and I’m counting Jean Arthur from Easy Living<\/a><\/em>) along with Cuddles Sakall (same year as Ball of Fire<\/a><\/em>) and Spring Byington (You Can’t Take It With You<\/a><\/em>) and throw ’em all together. I was worried that the unknowns (Edmund Gwenn as a cranky boss and Robert Cummings as Jean’s labor-organizer love-interest, both Hitchcock actors) would drag down the cast, but no, everyone was great.<\/p>\n

Coburn is supposedly a reclusive tyrant businessman whose response to any trouble is to fire people, but when he goes undercover at his own department store to ferret out pro-unionists he immediately turns into a teddy bear and falls for a fellow worker (Byington) in the shoe department. His new friends, Jean and Robert, are leading the labor fight, and though Coburn easily gets their list of sympathizers, he decides – instead of firing everyone on the list – to have a double wedding and take everyone on a Hawaiian cruise.<\/p>\n

Wood made a couple of Marx Brothers movies and writer Norman Krasna did Mr. and Mrs. Smith<\/em>, Indiscreet<\/a><\/em> and White Christmas<\/a><\/em>. Nominated for two oscars alongside The Devil Pays Off<\/em> and The Devil and Daniel Webster<\/em>, a diabolical year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Would be a decent enough movie – good concept but plot problems and sometimes clunky direction – but oh, the cast! A few months after The Lady Eve, someone had the smarts to hire a bunch of Preston Sturges players (Coburn, Demarest, and I’m counting Jean Arthur from Easy Living) along with Cuddles Sakall (same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,1986,1987,1695,450,1988],"class_list":["post-10142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-charles-coburn","tag-cuddles-sakall","tag-jean-arthur","tag-labor-union","tag-muggsy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10164,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions\/10164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}