Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Radio review – TGA#68 - “The First Year” (1947) **

Very lame, light comedy about newlyweds during their first year of marriage. Gene Tierney is the bride, who just wants to marry someone to get out of town and go travelling, which hardly makes her sympathetic. David Wayne falls for her. Then bulk of the “plot” consists of Wayne inviting some people over for dinner and wanting to impress them to make a big real estate sale. It goes badly, Tierney leaves, finds out Wayne’s rich, goes back to him. I think this is supposed to make us happy. There’s a comic black maid, a wise old doctor, and it’s set in 1920. Tierney gives a pretty good performance – it’s not her fault she plays a silly slag.

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