{"id":10921,"date":"2016-04-11T20:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10921"},"modified":"2016-04-08T12:43:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T17:43:29","slug":"mr-and-mrs-smith-1941-alfred-hitchcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10921","title":{"rendered":"Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941, Alfred Hitchcock)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curious to know what hardcore Hitch-heads think about this halfway-decent marital comedy, coming in the wake of <em>Rebecca<\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5941\">Foreign Correspondent<\/a><\/em>&#8230; but not curious enough to look it up, cuz I got things to do.<\/p>\n<p>Carole Lombard (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/577\">Twentieth Century<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1191\">My Man Godfrey<\/a><\/em>) asks husband Robert Montgomery (only seen him in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/516\">The Divorcee<\/a><\/em>) if he&#8217;d marry her again and he says no, so when a government clerk shows up and says their marrage was never legal, she kicks him out, gets a job, and starts dating Gene Raymond (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9860\">Ex-Lady<\/a><\/em>).  Through a bunch of contrivances I can&#8217;t clearly remember, the Smiths end up back together, because it&#8217;s 1941 and any other ending would literally be illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Screenwriter Norman Krasna is a regular at our house: <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/444\">Let&#8217;s Make Love<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1529\">Indiscreet<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/442\">White Christmas<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10142\">The Devil and Miss Jones<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3767\">Fury<\/a><\/em>.  I could take or leave the movie, but I think I like Carole Lombard lots, and would consider holding a Lombard Festival to confirm this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious to know what hardcore Hitch-heads think about this halfway-decent marital comedy, coming in the wake of Rebecca and Foreign Correspondent&#8230; but not curious enough to look it up, cuz I got things to do. Carole Lombard (Twentieth Century, My Man Godfrey) asks husband Robert Montgomery (only seen him in The Divorcee) if he&#8217;d marry [&hellip;]<\/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":[416,255,683,1510],"class_list":["post-10921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-alfred-hitchcock","tag-carole-lombard","tag-divorce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921","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=10921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11012,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions\/11012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}