Happy Thankgiving from Rita and all of us here at N and CF.

Affectionally Yours(1941).

Affectionately Yours(1941). Cast: Rita Hayworth, Merle Oberon and Dennis Morgan. Also featured were the Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen.

Foreign correspondent Rickey Mayberry, is running all over Europe with other women,while his wife Sue, is alone in New York. Rickey soon learns that Sue has divorced him. It is then that he realizes he cannot live without her. He rushes home to win her back. His new flame Irene has plans of her own.

Rickey returns to New York to find Sue is engaged to Owen Wright. Sue did not like separation caused by Rickey's work. So, he figures the only way to make her happy is to quit his job. But his editor, Chester Phillips, does not want to lose his best reporter and Irene also does not want to lose Rickey. The two join forces to keep the Mayberry's apart and they come up with a plan to have a photo of Irene and Rickey together for ammunition.

Irene pretends to be on Rickey's side and offers to help him with Sue. He tells Sue that Irene is a girl from a dating service. Sue invites them to go out to dinner with she and Owen. The plan is ruined when Irene "accidentally" lets the incriminating photo be seen. Sue realizes they already know each other and decides to marry Owen the following day.

Irene and Phillips try and keep him from the ceremony. They invite him to Irene's apartment, where four thugs keep him trapped until morning. Will Rickey escape in time for the ceremony?

I thought this was a very cute movie. It's also always fun to watch Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen perform.

Merle Oberon (18 or 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was an Indian-born British actress.

She worked as a club hostess under the name Queenie O'Brien and played in minor and unbilled roles in various films.

Her film career received a major boost when the director Alexander Korda gave her a role, under the name Merle Oberon in the film, The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). She was then given leading roles in the film, The Scarlet Pimpernel(1934), with Leslie Howard, who was her lover at the time.

Oberon's had a successful career, partly as a result of her relationship with and later marriage to Alexander Korda. He sold "shares" of her contract to producer Samuel Goldwyn, who gave her roles in Hollywood. Oberon earned her sole Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for, The Dark Angel (1935). Around this time she had a serious romance with David Niven.

She was selected to perform in Korda's film, I, Claudius (1937), but a serious car accident resulted in filming being cancelled. Oberon was scarred for life, but skilled lighting technicians were able to hide her injuries. She went on to perform in her most famous film, Wuthering Heights(1939), A Song to Remember(1945) and in the film, Désirée(1954).
Please click to read Lady Eves, Claudis(1937) The movie that never was review.

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Rita Hayworth

What does Rita Hayworth, Montgomery Clift and Spring Byington have in Common?

Well... it is their Birthday! :)

Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), Film actress and dancer who became famous in the 1940s not only as one of the era's top stars, but also as a great sex symbol. Rita, is best known for her performance in the film, Gilda (1946).

List of Rita  Hayworth films that I have seen:

Only Angles Have Wings
Blood and Sand (1941)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Cover Girl (1944)
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Gilda (1946)
Down to Earth (1947)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
The Loves of Carmen (1948)
Fire Down Below (1957)
Pal Joey (1957)

Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966), first film performance was in, Red River(1946). Next Clift went on to perform in the film, The Search. Clift was unhappy with the script, and rewrote most of it himself. The movie was nominated for a screenwriting Academy Award, but the original writers were credited instead. Clift's performance got him nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Clift's next movie was, The Heiress. He signed on for the movie in order to avoid being typecast.

Clift's next movie was The Big Lift. Although Clift gave an amazing performance, the movie ended up being a box office bust. Clift was set to appear in Sunset Boulevard (which was written specifically for him) but he dropped out at the last minute, as he felt that his character was too close to him in real life.


List of Montgomery Clift movies I have seen:
1961 The Misfits
1959 Suddenly, Last Summer
1957 Raintree County
1953 From Here to Eternity
1951 A Place in the Sun
1949 The Heiress
1948 Red River

Spring Byington (October 17, 1886 – September 7, 1971), first film was a short film titled, Papa's Slay Ride(1931) and her second, and most famous performance was in, Little Women (1933) as "Marmee" with Katharine Hepburn as her daughter "Jo". She worked as a character actress in Hollywood for many years. In 1938, Byington was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for, You Can't Take it With You, which was won by Fay Bainter for Jezebel (in which Byington also had a role, as antebellum society matron Mrs. Kendrick).

One of my favorite Spring Byington performances was as Larry Hagman's mother on, I Dream of Jeannie(1967).



List of Spring Byington films I have seen:

Little Women (1933)
Werewolf of London
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
The Buccaneer (1938)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Meet John Doe (1941)
When Ladies Meet (1941)
Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
The Heavenly Body (1944)
The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
Thrill of a Romance (1945)
Dragonwyck (1946)
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
Angels in the Outfield (1951)
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)