{"id":9362,"date":"2014-10-20T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9362"},"modified":"2014-10-19T15:42:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T20:42:35","slug":"this-time-for-keeps-1947-richard-thorpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9362","title":{"rendered":"This Time For Keeps (1947, Richard Thorpe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esther Williams musical, feat. Apple Blossom Time, the Chiquita Banana song, Easy To Love (three times! And Esther&#8217;s in a whole separate movie called <em>Easy To Love<\/em>) and of course Inka Dinka Doo, since Jimmy Durante plays star swimmer Esther&#8217;s agent\/&#8221;family friend&#8221;\/wannabe-love-interest.  Another wannabe: her greying boss Gordon (Dick Simmons), whom she almost marries at the end when actual love interest Dick (singer Johnny Johnston) is found to be engaged after Dick&#8217;s meddling opera-star dad Lauritz Melchior (the movie&#8217;s bad, but you can&#8217;t hold that against Lauritz) announces Dick&#8217;s engagement to another girl (soap star Mary Stuart, only in one scene).  Despite this setback, Dick wins over Esther&#8217;s gramma (May Whitty, society rose gardener in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7295\">Mrs. Miniver<\/a><\/em>) and though I have no particular love for Dick, I&#8217;m glad Esther ends up with the only person in the movie within 25 years of her own age (besides bandleader Xavier Cugat &#8211; wouldn&#8217;t it have been great if she ended up with him instead?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esther Williams musical, feat. Apple Blossom Time, the Chiquita Banana song, Easy To Love (three times! And Esther&#8217;s in a whole separate movie called Easy To Love) and of course Inka Dinka Doo, since Jimmy Durante plays star swimmer Esther&#8217;s agent\/&#8221;family friend&#8221;\/wannabe-love-interest. Another wannabe: her greying boss Gordon (Dick Simmons), whom she almost marries at [&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":[416,1722,80],"class_list":["post-9362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-esther-williams","tag-musical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362","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=9362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9408,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362\/revisions\/9408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}