The Doctor Takes A Wife
starring
Loretta Young ■ Ray Milland
(1940)
Here's just what the doctor ordered... To make you laugh yourself healthy!
| June Cameron has written a best seller about spinsters: women are men's equals and don't need them for fulfillment. Through a series of errors and misunderstandings, the press believes she's married Tim Sterling, a university instructor she's just met. Her publisher wants to let the mistake go uncorrected for a few weeks so she can write a best seller about being married; Tim cooperates because, in hidebound academia, being married may help with a promotion. The flies in the ointment are June and Tim's instant enmity, Tim's stubbornness, and his girlfriend Marilyn, who may not let the charade play out. There's no way everyone can get what they want I found this 1940s romantic comedy gem while scrolling through old movies on Youtube late one night. I was bored, wanted to watch something I'd never seen before, and I've liked Ray Milland is several other old rom-coms so I decided to give this movie a shot despite the fact I'm not a Loretta Young fan. Oh, my gosh! I did not expect this movie to be so funny or to like it as much as I did. As soon as I watched it I knew it was one that I'd share with my family, all adults, my dad in particular has enjoyed some of these old 1930s and 1940s rom-coms with me. As expected they laughed just as much as I did. One of the things I loved about The Doctor Takes A Wife is how the two main characters take turns being unreasonable, funny, and they each have a few lessons to learn before the end credits roll. I've never been a fan of movies where one person or age group is stereotyped as stupid and the other is super smart. But this movie avoids that pitfall, he and she both have some very mistaken ideas and yet both have moments where they are entirely in the right. I may have discovered this film on Youtube but it's one that I enjoyed enough to watch twice close together and it's also one that I'd love to add to my DVD collection to watch whenever I wish. . .  89 Minutes | Principal Cast Loretta Young...June Cameron Ray Milland...Dr. Timothy Sterling Reginald Gardiner...John Pierce Gail Patrick...Marilyn Thomas Edmund Gwenn...Dr. Lionel Sterling Frank Sully...Slapcovitch Gordon Jones...O'Brien Georges Metaxa...Jean Rovere Charles Halton...Dr. Streeter Joseph Eggenton...Dr. Nielson Paul McAllister...Dean Lawton Chester Clute...Johnson Hal K. Dawson...Charlie Edward Van Sloan...Burkhardt Quotes New York Editor: Oh - they're not married? Then we'll have to print that the man in her bedroom is *not* her husband. June Cameron: Look, Johnny. I don't know anything about marriage. John R. Pierce: Oh, what's that got to do with it? Dante didn't have to go to hell to write his "Inferno." June Cameron: [to Timothy] Now, listen to me, my microscopic friend, you might be able to give orders to the barnacle you're engaged to, but the last time a man tries it on me, I was six, and he was seven, and for one solid hour I beat him over the head with my all-day sucker! Dr. Timothy Sterling: Well, gentlemen, as you well know, 75 is the passing grade, and so far you've confined all your passing to the football field. Dr. Lionel Sterling: Have you two had a quarrel? June Cameron: Yes. Yes, he hit me. Dr. Lionel Sterling: You didn't? June Cameron: Yes, he did. Dr. Timothy Sterling: Well, I only pushed her. Dr. Lionel Sterling: You only pushed her? Tim, I shouldn't have to remind you that this is not the Neolithic age. Dr. Timothy Sterling: Well, how would you like it if someone said that your father was a pompous, opinionated old windbag? June Cameron: I didn't say that. Dr. Lionel Sterling: I would be honest enough to admit that the person was absolutely right. June Cameron: Pop, he's lying. I never said that. Dr. Lionel Sterling: I don't care who said it, my dear, it's true. I talk too much. Your mother always said that. |
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