Sep 12th
Idiot's Delight*
(US 1939)
Returning home from the First World War, a down-on-his-luck entertainer meets up with a girl whom he later unexpectedly meets again on the Europan frontier before the start of the next war.
Oddball star vehicle made in semi-pacifist pre-war America, that hasn't aged well with its pompous eulogising that gets in the way of the romantic comedy, but has pleasures including Gable - not incapably - singing and dancing.
Written by: Robert E. Sherwood, from his play.
Producer: Hunt Stromberg.
Director: Clarence Brown.
Starring: Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn, Joseph Shildkraut, Burgess Meredith, Les Blondes, Skeets Gallagher, Fritz Feld.
Photography: William Daniels.
Music: Herbert Stothard.
Idiot's Delight*
(US 1939)
Returning home from the First World War, a down-on-his-luck entertainer meets up with a girl whom he later unexpectedly meets again on the Europan frontier before the start of the next war.
Oddball star vehicle made in semi-pacifist pre-war America, that hasn't aged well with its pompous eulogising that gets in the way of the romantic comedy, but has pleasures including Gable - not incapably - singing and dancing.
Written by: Robert E. Sherwood, from his play.
Producer: Hunt Stromberg.
Director: Clarence Brown.
Starring: Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn, Joseph Shildkraut, Burgess Meredith, Les Blondes, Skeets Gallagher, Fritz Feld.
Photography: William Daniels.
Music: Herbert Stothard.
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