{"id":13324,"date":"2019-12-22T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13324"},"modified":"2019-12-21T22:42:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T03:42:16","slug":"i-love-melvin-1953-don-weis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13324","title":{"rendered":"I Love Melvin (1953, Don Weis)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Debbie and Donald, reuniting from last year’s Singin’ in the Rain<\/em>. This one’s not at the same level, but is still awfully fun with good music – other musicals<\/a> we’ve watched this month have better dancing, but this one had the best songs.<\/p>\n

The plot is convoluted hooey: he bumps into her in the park, makes excuses to spend time together by photographing her for a nonexistent article in the magazine where he works as a flunky. She’s currently playing a football on Broadway (not “playing football”, she’s the football, it’s hilarious) and is supposed to marry a rich chunk (Richard Anderson of Seconds<\/a><\/em> and Forbidden Planet<\/em>), so Donald goes further in his scheme and brings over a mock-up magazine with Debbie on the cover, which causes everyone to overreact. Donald ends up homeless and the magazine devotes an entire issue to locating him – as you do when you’re a major publication and your coffee boy goes missing – and everyone’s happy, except maybe Debbie’s dad (Allyn Joslyn: a pilot in Only Angels Have Wings<\/a><\/em>, sheriff of Moonrise<\/em>) who quit his job spectacularly and now has an unemployed son-in-law. Katy knows the mom from The Parent Trap<\/em> – Una Merkel aged fast, from playing the marriable daughter of The Bank Dick<\/a><\/em> to playing someone’s Aunt Elsie in only one year.<\/p>\n

Vibrant colors, and not in widescreen, this being six months before the premiere of Cinemascope. Don Weis went into television early, directing everything from Wagon Train<\/em> in the 50’s to Batman<\/em> in the 60’s to MASH<\/em> in the 70’s to Fantasy Island<\/em> in the 80’s. The screenwriter won an oscar a couple years later for Designing Woman<\/em>. Debbie’s little sister gets a whole song, and it’s not terrible. She would later be a teen TV star on the series Bachelor Father<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Debbie and Donald, reuniting from last year’s Singin’ in the Rain. This one’s not at the same level, but is still awfully fun with good music – other musicals we’ve watched this month have better dancing, but this one had the best songs. The plot is convoluted hooey: he bumps into her in the park, […]<\/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":[342,835,2588,2589],"class_list":["post-13324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-debbie-reynolds","tag-don-weis","tag-donald-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324","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=13324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13339,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324\/revisions\/13339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}