SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

a_chinn Written by I.A.L. Diamond, the future writing partner of the great Billy Wilder, the script has hints at some of their future collaborations ("The Apartment," Some Like it Hot," "The Fortune Cookie," etc), but is nowhere as good any of those films. This story is about a GI returning home to find his wife has bought a broken-down NYC brownstone as an investment for them to rent out to tenants. What ends up happening is they find themselves caught up in the lives of their various renters, most notably of which is a GI buddy of the husband, "Bobby" short for Roberta, played by a before-she-was-famous Marilyn Monroe. When she made this film, Monroe has just had her memorable small role in "All About Eve" and studio boss Darrly Zanuck took it upon himself to begin shaping her image with a key supporting part in this film. Monroe is quite good in the picture, but is only of the several tenants the film follows. If the film had more prominently featured Monroe or made more out the perceived love triangle between husband, wife, and Monroe, it may have made for a fun farcical door slamming sesx comedy along the lines of "Kiss Me, Stupid." Instead, it's merely a pleasant, but forgettable comedy that's now only of note as an early work by Monroe and Diamond before they went on to bigger and better films; Monroe with "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "The Seven Year Itch" and Diamond co-writing "Love in the Afternoon" and "Monkey Business" (the Hawks comedy, not the Marx Bros. film) before their paths crossing again nine years later in the undeniable American film classic "Some Like it Hot." Overall, if you watch "Love Nest" don't expect anything the caliber of Monroe or Diamond's later work, but instead simply expect a modestly entertaining comedy.

TxMike I found this one on the "Movies!" channel, released in 1951, in glorious black and white, but set in immediate post-WW2 1946. This is primarily a romantic comedy with 1950s sensibilities.June Haver is Connie Scott, her husband has been gone for 2 1/2 years, fighting in WW2. Her husband is William Lundigan as Jim Scott. He has been sending money home as he is able, she has been saving it, so they could start their "love nest" when the war ended.Jim comes home a few days early to surprise Connie, but the surprise is on him. She used the money as a down payment to buy a multi-floor house in the city, they would live in one section and rent out the other units. The income from the rentals would pay for their mortgage, and Jim could settle in to his writing career.The problem turns out the building was not in very good shape, inspectors required the electrical wiring to be redone, the building shook every time the fire truck passed in the street, and the tenants had ongoing plumbing problems that needed to be addressed. Plus, it turns out the "good deal" Connie got was about $5000 more than it was worth, and that was a big sum in 1946.A colorful side story is added by Frank Fay as Charley Patterson, one of the new tenants. Charlie is quite the charmer, but as his whole story unfolds he is wanted by the FBI as a bigamist who cheats gullible old widows out of their money.In a minor, but important, supporting role just a few years before her big movies, Marilyn Monroe is Bobbie Stevens, a WAC that fought with Jim overseas. She returns to the city and needs a place to rent. Her being a tenant creates some jealousy, but also offers a romantic interest for Jack Paar as Ed Forbes, a friend of Jim's.Overall a very pleasant, enjoyable movie.SPOILERS: The law finally catches up with Charlie right after he marries one of the nice ladies who also is a tenant. But Charlie says he is reformed, he is now a one-woman man, and serves 18 months in jail, but also collaborates with Jim as the author, they write a best-selling book of Charlie's adventures, splitting the profits, which gives Jim and Connie the cash to make their place into the love nest they wanted.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** Cute little post WWII comedy with a drop dead gorgeous strawberry, instead of the usual platinum, blond looking Marilyn Monroe as US Army WAC Bobbie Stevens the former army buddy of Jim Scott, William Lundigan. Bobbie's looking to rent a room from Jim at his Gramacy Park apartment building in Manhattan that's about to be condemned by the city. If things weren't bad enough for Jim's wife Connie, June Haver, the fact that Bobbie was now living under the same roof with her and Jim made things even worse for her!Despite the eye candy that Marilyn Monore as Bobbie Stevens provided in the film it's Frank Fay as con artist Charley Patterson who really made things interesting in the movie. The smooth talking and sophisticated Charley, the worlds greatest lover as he modestly calls himself, has been stiffing rich old ladies or widows of their cash for the last 15 years by first marrying and then checking out on them; With their both stock & bond portfolios and bank accounts.Despertly needing $800.00 to fix up the apartment building to prevent it from being condemned Charley graciously gives the Scott's the money with them not knowing that it's part of his ill gotten gains he stiffed his former and deserted wives out of. Things come to a head later in the film with the NYPD FBI, not the IRS since Charley always paid his taxes, as well as some dozen screaming and hysterical ex-wives of his track Charley down at the Scott's apartment building. In an effort to make a deal with he D.A's office Charley fingers Jim as his accomplice in his crimes in that he gave him the stolen $800.00!***SPOILERS*** As things soon turned out Charley wasn't the heel that we all thought he was in getting Jim in a prison cell together with him for the night! By giving Jim a both frustrated writer as well as landlord the scoop about his life of crime, and affairs with countless women, had the down on his luck landlord end up getting out of debt! That's with the book Jim ended up writing about Charley becoming a super best seller! As for Charley he did his time behind bars and came out a new and far more honest and family man for it. P.S Look for a pre night-time talk show host pioneer Jack Parr, who's par for the course and role in the movie, as wise cracking lawyer and good friend of the Scott's Ed Forbes. Ed was the only guy, in him being the only single man in the film's cast, to make a play for Bobbie without feeling guilty, who the hell single or married would, about it!

rollo_tomaso This is one of those forced early-'50's sex comedies without the sex. Lundigan is contrived and insipid, and Marilyn Monroe is totally miscast as his old Army buddy, Bobby Stephens. Henry Kulky provides the movie's only truly interesting character. When he is on-screen, he is making a different-and-better movie than the rest of the players.