Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

mark.waltz That's how WWII wife Ginger Rogers insists that she and three other co-workers at a war plant in Los Angeles will run the house they rent on Adams Blvd. together while their husbands are away fighting the war. She's very lonely without husband Robert Ryan (seen at the beginning leaving for combat as well as flashbacks throughout the film) so she thinks this will be a great way for all four of them (and the housekeeper they eventually hire) will be able to save expenses. Patricia Collinge, Ruth Hussey and Kim Hunter are the three co-workers; Mady Christians is the German immigrant they eventually hire to be their housekeeper. Each of them are totally different so the typical "roommate" conflicts arise, some amusingly humorous, others more serious and political.What makes this film interesting is the politics behind it involving the creators-both screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director Edward Dmytryk were both later part of the Hollywood Ten. The hints of communism are really so subtle that you'd have to be a mind-reader or easily manipulated to pick them up. In fact, the film is really so democratic that I'm surprised that it was filmed in black and white, not in Red, White and Blue. It sure has enough stars.If communism is a group of people, unrelated, living together to make ends meet and forming a community, then yes, this is communistic. But, as Myrna Loy would later point out, that if there were communists in Hollywood, they were not the dangerous ones, and they certainly were not out to take over the country. This movie has the message to preserve it. It is simply a movie that offended the conservatives with its rather liberal message.Rogers, is of course, the shining star of the film, still hot after a slew of hit musicals with Fred Astaire and fresh from winning her Oscar for "Kitty Foyle". This was the film that ended her long contract tenure at RKO Radio (even though she'd return a few times later on), and she's playing a very complex character. Like her early 30's sassy pre-code women, she's an outspoken broad who several times in the movie wants to kick herself for putting her foot in it. The scene where she tells off seemingly unfaithful wife Ruth Hussey then finds out that Hussey's husband has just been reported as missing after his ship was bombed in the Pacific Ocean is one of the film's many emotional highlights. Future Oscar Winner Kim Hunter is the young and innocent one whom Rogers becomes a surrogate sister to, while Patricia Collinge (Oscar Nominee for "The Little Foxes") is the older and wiser one who is like their den mother.And then there's Mady Christians as the German Immigrant who fled her homeland after Hitler's takeover, a justifiably angry woman who accuses her own people of murdering their own country. It is her character that is the most political, and that makes sense. If you had to flee your homeland and saw your husband go off to war to fight your own people, you'd be a bit political, too. The issue of rationing is of course one of the film's most discussed, and no bones are made about what a pain it is to have to give up desires like lipsticks and nylons just because the military needs the elements that make them. I have collected World War II ration books found in my family's estate, and they are truly amazing and historical to research.I wonder what happened with the character played by Jane Darwell when Rogers bids Ryan farewell. She introduces herself to the sobbing Rogers then disappears from the film. I wonder if there was a bigger scene cut out, her being so fresh from winning the Oscar for "The Grapes of Wrath".Robert Ryan is one of Hollywood's most unique actors, not traditionally handsome but talented and versatile nonetheless. He could do westerns, gangsters and comedy, and in this film, he is a truly unglamorized leading character that seems as real as the situation as the women are living through.

Alonzo Church This is the type of movie for which the fast-forward function was invented, as parts of this movie have both fine writing and fine acting, and other parts are dreadful propaganda. The story is simple. Ginger Rogers, husband to soldier Robert Ryan, convinces her other pals working at the war plant to move in together, and pool their assets. The story of Robert Ryan and Ginger is told through flashbacks, scattered randomly through the tale of how five working women manage to live together, even when spouting impossible dialog at each other.The scenes between Rogers and Ryan are well-written and finely acted. Trumbo and the actors capture (most unusually for almost any movie) how a generally happy marriage works and how a quarrel might develop. Watch the scenes where these two are together. They are (mostly) free of the propaganda that does not age well.The rest of the movie. Well, the characters are types and serve as mouthpieces for the "We must sacrifice for the war effort" line being sold by the movie. If one is looking for preposterous moments of the cinema, one can flip forward to the scene where our group home's housekeeper gets in a rage because the butcher slipped an extra piece of bacon in the order. (Followed by a confession of hoarding by one of the girls in the house. Followed by an anti-foreigner tirade by the most ethically challenged of the group residents.) There is some decent 'ol fashioned movie rhetoric in this part, but, mostly, this section is hokum.

broadwaylady-1 I remember when we first got cable and had AMC. (This was back when AMC really did show the golden oldies... real classics.) It was at the beginning of the summer, and so of course i spent my days watching AMC, and my evenings watching I Love Lucy. This was on AMC twice one week, and I loved it. I have been searching for a copy of it ever since. I have checked every movie rental place (including one with dozens and dozens of the good old movies... Gene Kelly, Ava Gardner, etc.) and no one nearby seems to have one. Not even on ebay could I find a copy. I have craved this movie ever since that summer, and remember it as being one of the best movies I had ever seen. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in this type of movie. It is excellent. I miss it so much, I just wish i could see it again.

JRis1-4Jesus This romantic and exciting movie may have been made as early as 1942, the year after Pearl Harbor. The outcome of the war was no where near certain. The Germans were in complete control of Europe and parts of Africa. The Germans were bombing London daily. The Japanese controlled all of Southeast Asia, from Korea and Manchuria in the north to the Philippines in the south Pacific. The third member of the Axis, Italy had the largest air force in the world at the outbreak of world war 2. Our Pacific fleet was reeling from the losses at Pearl Harbor and from our losses at the victory at Midway. The French fleet was about to surrender.It is essentially the story of five women in the United States. Ginger Rogers as Jo Jones, Ruth Hussey as Barbara Thomas, Patricia Collinge as Helen Stacey, Kim Hunter as Doris Dumbrowski, the young very recently(war time romance)married young lady and Mady Christians as Manya Lodge. Four of them work together in a defense plant and the fifth (Manya) is a German-American who cannot be hired (there was a great deal of prejudice and wariness of both Germans and Japanese). The story has an emphasis on the Chris Jones family (Ginger Rogers and her husband High School sweetheart Robert Ryan). They are a non religious, Midwestern family, who act very normal for the 1940s. Ginger Rogers (who neither smoked, nor drank) is shown lighting up a cigarette and joyfully partaking in an alcoholic beverage. This was the way of the Hollywood world of the 1940s.All five ladies are married and have husbands serving in the armed forces. One of the ladies has a bad marriage and is hurting and seeking affirmation in the world. She thinks nothing of an extra pound of bacon or a little cheating on your rations or a date with an older man. (Yes, they rationed certain foods and fuels in WW2). Ginger Rogers and Manya, the German American whose husband is also in the US Army are very upset at the slightest cheating on the rationing system, as they reason that if 20 million women are cheating, only a pound of this or that a day, then the Army will be shorted their full supplies.Jo Jones(Ginger Rogers) who was visited by her husband just before he left for overseas, has a baby. The woman who is upset at her naval husband and about to go out on the town with an older man (late 40s) hears the news that her husband's ship has been sunk in the battle for Midway. Watch this movie, as this true representation of what was happening on the home front of World War Two is played out. Does the woman whose husband is on the lost ship, do the right thing? How does the young woman whose husband left after their marriage, but before they could have any type of a honeymoon, fare compared to those ladies who were married for sometime? How does the baby turn out? Do all the husbands survive or are some lost to make this world a better and safer place for their wives and families? This is an historically accurate movie. The parts are well played, the story (stories) ring true. You will enjoy this movie, but I must warn even the most macho men, that you may find your eyes misting over on a couple of occasions, including at the very heart touching ending.