I am looking for the name of a movie made sometime in the 1940's,
starring Robert Cummings. I only know these various pieces of
information that my mother told me about the movie. I'm sorry that
this information is so fragmented. The plot as she knows it is as
follows:
The movie starts in a lab. There might be a monkey in the movie. He
was going to get married, but complications ensue. This complication
might be an old boyfriend, or the woman's parents. He goes to
Connecticut. He ends up going out windows, on the roof, in the snow. |
Request for Question Clarification by
rainbow-ga
on
15 Mar 2005 14:59 PST
Hi tcica,
Could this be the movie?
It Started with Eve (1941)
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to
make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's
health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to
break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his
father is so taken with the impostor.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033766/
Best regards,
Rainbow
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Clarification of Question by
tcica-ga
on
17 Mar 2005 12:29 PST
I asked my mother; it's not the one. I posted on moviefolio.com to
ask the same question, but it doesn't seem to be frequented very much.
This is the post I used.
"The movie was a comedy most likely made in the 1940's. She remembers
the first scene where Bob Cummings is in a laboratory, and there may
have been a monkey in the lab as well. He is engaged to be married and
takes a trip to a house in Connecticut to be with his fiancee.
Something there causes problems for him and his fiancee. It might be
an old boyfriend or her parents. One scene my mother does recall is
Bob Cummings climbing out a window onto the roof in the snow to avoid
something. She recalls it as a very funny movie"
It doesn't add very much to your info, but it's all I know.
Thanks
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Request for Question Clarification by
markj-ga
on
17 Mar 2005 14:42 PST
tcica --
Your mention of a scene in a lab early in the movie leads me to
suggest that it just might be "Free For All," which was released in
1949. Plot details are sparse, but here is a short excerpt from a
plot description, followed by a link to that description:
" A pleasant comedy with serious undertones, Free for All stars Robert
Cummings as erstwhile inventor Christopher Parker. Hoping to secure a
patent on his latest invention--a formula that turns water into
gasoline--Parker is flummoxed by yards and yards of governmental and
bureaucratic red tape."
New York Times: Movies: Free For All
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=18561
What do you think?
markj-ga
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