The More the Merrier [VHS] Overview
Portly Charles Coburn makes a cute if unlikely cupid in George Stevens's smart 1943 romantic comedy. Jean Arthur is girl next door and big-city sophisticate rolled up in one bubbly package as Connie Milligan, a single woman in Washington D.C. who sublets a room in her small apartment during the wartime housing crisis. Her new roommate, the deadpan eccentric Mr. Dingle (Coburn, who won an Oscar for his rascally performance), dislikes her stiff, bureaucratic beau and takes it upon himself to find her an appropriate boyfriend, namely the soft-spoken industrial engineer Joe Carter (Joel McCrea), whom Dingle puts up in his half of the apartment. Stevens takes a measured approach to comedy: The first morning with all three in the cramped kitchen turns a painstakingly organized schedule into a chaotic free-for-all that just gets funnier as the anarchy builds. Even more effective is the contrast between the charmingly effusive Arthur and McCrea's sauntering style, which creates not so much sparks as a slow simmer as they continue to spend time together. One of the finest craftsmen of Hollywood's Golden Age, Stevens shapes this lightweight screenplay into one of the most delectable romantic comedies of all time. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
It's just that I ever wrong. For years I watched Charles Coburn as a pig fat old men who have always been a big, wet-chewed cigar in his mouth. I was so impressed with the Kings Row melodrama cheese, I just noticed her amazing performance as Dr. Gordon, cruel, vengeful surgeon, has Drake McHugh exclaim, "Where's the rest of me?" Then I saw the Lady Eve, and then The Devil and Miss Jones. And now, the more the better. Not only could define the operation Coburn in the worst case, I finallyclear that he is one of the finest and most experienced practitioners of high quality comedy. Coburn won the Academy Award as best supporting actor for his work in the more the better. It would be legitimate, as it was for Eva and Miss Jones. As well as a film as more the merrier, as well as Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea and Charles Coburn are as Benjamin Dingle, a well-to-do retired millionaire, "which turns out to be an extraordinarily intelligent love, a reorientation of the film, each time the screen.
We are in the midst of World War II in Washington, and housing is almost impossible to obtain. Connie Milligan (Jean Arthur) is an ad for a roommate to share his apartment with two bedrooms. Benjamin Dingle (James Coburn), is in town for work and without a hotel room. He discovered the show, the bulls his way past a large number of candidates wishing to quickly and easily talk his way, he noticed that it seems that this attractive young woman to have a solitary life. In fact, she is a bureaucrat in Washington, so romantic, how committedwaiter busy. Dingle is not up to Joe Carter (Joel McCrea) in search of a spot room. Joe is tall and handsome. Within minutes, Dingle has subleased half of his room sublet to Joe. It is not long before the three of them falling over each other. But Connie and Joe fall for each other? Dingle, is smart and good intentions, determined to try.
This could serve as conventionally calculated as a one-Luci Desi. Thanks to director George Stevens, aBright, funny script, and Arthur, McCrea and Coburn, is another thing. More the Merrier is an elegant and witty romantic comedy, which is mainly in the first half, close to a classic Marx Brothers routine times. It helps sometimes to appreciate many of the routine, such as comedy, very bright from the first class players that build-up comedy and in a fraction of a second phase appears to be spontaneous. Let's see ... For starters there is the "Declaration of the plot plan of action in the morning"Routine with Arthur and Coburn, the "Who gets the bathroom, getting the egg" routine with Coburn, Arthur and McCrea, the "where's my pants" routine with Coburn, the "Connie and Joe, and Exchange leather "routine with Arthur and McCrea, and" Who did you go to the sea "routine with Arthur and McCrea. Sure, there are three players that play cute ... But if they do not always seem to be pretty or cute or funny. Arthur Coburn and are experts in this typeespecially in the face, in a split second and comedy Community McCrea, it turns out, is also good.
As often as Jean Arthur in the thirties and forties, some excellent leader for the job - McCrea, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Charles Boyer, James Stewart and Ronald Colman, among other things - it would only make an ideal partner in comedy was Charles Coburn. They played together in three images:
The Devil and Miss Jones in 1941, the Merrier in 1943, and impatient1944. Arthur was a strong, American experts to Fey, confused, loving, innocent, romantic, natural, sexy and thin. His voice, instantly recognizable, has helped define her character on screen. Could be as vulnerable, but held over, in their movies. I can not make films made after the mid-thirties, who have not been defined as "films Jean Arthur to think." Coburn, old enough to be her grandfather was too, as a good actor - an actor when they calledat - who managed to make a balance with it, that part of the mystery, click on why some actors together and others are not. It is his ability to make able to connect with other players and go. Just look him in The Lady Eve share a scene with Barbara Stanwyck.
More the Merrier is a proud sweet-natured romantic comedies of Hollywood, with many rapid physical action thrown in. Even the sentimentality is fun. The film was in 1966 Remakeas the Walk, Do not Run, with Cary Grant, Samantha Egger and Jim Hutton. For teaching, as it was in a bright, intelligent romantic comedy into a trot, Cary Grant in his last film, unfortunately, is in turn to see.
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