The Viewing Files: Rom Com's 1940's Style

Back to the oldies.  Again.

This time round it's rom com's 1940's style and there is seriously a lot to love in this bunch.  Only one was truly terrible, another was so-so and the rest were just what I needed - cuteness and romance and some smiles too.

I'm just gonna wallow.

Ball of Fire

Starring: A tall man and a red head floozy

Original release: 1941

Synopsis: A professor meets a cabaret singer and chaos ensues.

 

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs if Snow White was a cabaret singer and the dwarfs professors.

 

Surprisingly it's a lot of fun.

Miss Annie Rooney

Starring: Shirley Temple

Original release: 1942

Synopsis: Seriously cute movie

 

I want to live in a world where teen girls wear twinsets and ribbons in their hair and get given red roses and dance the jitterbug.

 

Shirley Temple as a teen was super cute as is this movie

Janie

Starring: Actors everyone has forgotten... if they even knew them in the 1st place

Original release: 1944

Synopsis: No father likes their daughter's boyfriend

 

Is it sad that I liked this? Probably.

 

But do I really care when it's just so cute and wholesome and set in a world where nothing bad ever happens.

 

Pure escapism 1940s style.

Margie

Starring: More actors no one remembers

Original release: 1946

Synopsis: Mother and daughter bonding

 

I'm definitely into the whole cute and wholesome teen rom coms of the 1940s. It's become my thing and I'm just going to wallow and enjoy ones like this as much as I can.

 

Personally though I found the actor who played the French teacher just a tad creepy and serial killerish. But that's just me.

The Lady Takes a Sailor

Starring: The ex Mrs Reagan

Original release: 1949

Synopsis: There really is a submarine

 

A super condescending man ruins a successful woman by branding her a liar and somehow it's romantic?

 

Maybe in 1949 but now he just comes across as a bully and a jerk. Definitely not the rom com for me.

The Voice of the Turtle

Starring: An ex president who actually was kind of charming way back in the day

Original release: 1947

Synopsis: Romance the way it should be

 

Oh my swoony heart. 

 

A shy awkward OCD woman who has given up on any and all romantic entanglements finds herself slowly falling for the soldier she takes care of during his weekend leave in New York and everything about this is just so cute and lovely and the two leads are just perfect in these roles.

 

Just the movie to make you feel all warm and fuzzy on a cold weekend day.

Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House

Starring: Cary Grant

Original release: 1948

Synopsis: A city couple move to the country

Cary Grant and Myrna Loy were made to play a married couple.