Always Together *** (1947, Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 4775

Director Frederick de Cordova’s good-natured 1947 Warner Bros movie features Cecil Kellaway as millionaire Turner, an old guy on his deathbed, leaves a million dollars to a starstruck young woman, Jane Barker (Joyce Reynolds), who believes life is like the movies.

Jane plans to marry her broke boyfriend Donn Masters (Robert Hutton) without telling him about the bequest. But Turner finds out that he is not terminally ill after all and wants his $1 million bequest money back from the movie addict.

This simple, straightforward, lighthearted comedy is directed with a neat and nimble pleasant touch. The sprightly screenplay by expert Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron and I A L Diamond, with its unusual premise and amusing dialogue, is breezily and expertly played.

Also in the cast are Ernest Truex, Don McGuire, Ransom Sherman and Douglas Kennedy.

And, with Jane imagining her experiences taking place in movies with real movie stars, the film is helped along a little bit more by cameos from Warner stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, Dennis Morgan, Janis Paige, Eleanor Parker and Alexis Smith.

© Derek Winnert 2016 Classic Movie Review 4775

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