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A JOYOUS REUNION OF THE STARS OF "THE LADY EVE"
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
You Belong to Me
1941 Directed by Wesley Ruggles
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the first five minutes held so much promise!!!! like it starts with a no-context skiing scene in which henry fonda is loudly yodelling in badly-synched ADR as he zips chaotically down the slopes, and barbara stanwyck is like screaming constantly and flailing her arms around because she's bad at skiing. just beautifully wacky stuff. and then it devolves into henry fonda being a possessive jealous little bitch boy who cannot handle that his wife is a doctor even though before they got married she was like "my work comes first" and then because this movie sucks you can totally tell where her arc is going in that regard. like i was pleasantly surprised by the ending but apart from henry fonda tripping up the stairs and whacking another guy on the ass out of jealousy, this movie is just not FUN! i was promised FUN by that opening! boooooo!
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After starring in the classic, The Lady Eve...Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck returned in this pretty bad movie. This time around they meet when the crash into each other while skiing. After they marry...Fonda turns into a jealous husband to the 20th degree. Watching Fonda try comedy is actually painful to watch. If you want to see these two together track down The Lady Eve...and ignore this one. Ranked 41st on my Henry Fonda Cogerson Movie Score table. cogersonmoviescore.com/henry-fonda-movies-best-to-worst.html
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"You didn't tell me you had younger male patients" -Peter Kirk,
- Stanwyck: boxd.it/gCaUO
A lady doctor? Couldn't be.
Holy wow, it's amazing how watchable and cute Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda managed to make the most problematic couple on Earth but damn.... they did it. My rating for this is mostly because of how fascinating it is that in 1941 people thought this was a normal relationship. The movie is super watchable because of the shock.
Gender is a prison, watch for proof...or don't, honestly it's fun but in an "I'm laughing to avoid tears" sort of way.
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It's definitely nowhere as good as their earlier team up in Lady Eve with Henry Fonda's character (Peter Kirk) being an insufferable pain. His bout of jealousy and insecurity makes you hates his character even more than when you initially meet him. It's hard to understand what the Barbara Stanwyck's character (Helen Hunt) sees in him and puts up with his antics.
Stanwyck looks spectacular in here and is too bad that this film is not that great.
Skip this film and watch Lady Eve instead.
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hated the misogynistic plot LOVE barbara stanwyck with everything i have both stars are for her and her only
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Bored rich guy Fonda marries successful doctor Stanwyck and torments everyone with jealous fits until he gets a job, then loses it and says some shit about discrimination against the rich which really takes the cake. There's some movie fantasy redemption here at the end so you don't entirely hate the guy, but in real life Fonda would just waste his money on a race to outer space.
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Within hours of marrying a female doctor and vowing that her career, and her dedication to her career, are fine with him, the Fonda character turns into a whining, self-pitying, jealous, infantile jerk who begins to screw things up immediately. "Darling, I'm a heel," he admits. Yep. I suppose his attitude reflects the general feeling circa 1941 about women working in traditionally male professions ("You've come a long way, baby," quoth Virginia Slims), and perhaps all that was hilarious to audiences at the time. Thankfully, it manages by the end to regain some satisfying equilibrium. Fonda and Stanwyk have their usual wonderful chemistry; he was quoted as saying he was in love with her then and remained ever thus.
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Ruth Donnelly’s character was right when she said “You know men, they have to be babied for the least little thing.”
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See Barbara Stanwyck play Helen Hunt, then watch His Brother's Wife to see her play Rita Wilson.
(Neither movie is especially great, but that's beside the point.)
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I adore Barbara Stanwyck, but this one is a real stinker folks. Fonda is whiny, histrionic, and tedious in the role of a millionaire who marries a doctor (Stanwyck), only to get immediately jealous of the demands on her time, and her male patients. Stanwyck has some nice lines ostensibly standing up for women’s rights early on, but all that is thrown away as she caves in for the silliest of reasons. She is completely unbelievable as a doctor, mainly because of the script. I won’t spoil it in case you actually want to watch it (don’t!), but you may actually feel vomit creeping up in your throat as the story plays out, that is, unless you’re hooting at the…