(1958) Returning to her adopted home of London instead of going to Majorca, the "beautiful, talented, and famous" stage actress Anne Kalman (Ingrid Bergman), once more having been disappointed by a man, makes acquaintance with Philip Adams (Cary Grant, reportedly the personal favorite of his movies), a wealthy and distinguished American diplomat, whom her brother-in-law Alfred Munson (Cecil Parker) has invited to accompany him and his wife Margaret (Phyllis Calvert) to Anne's, in an effort to "get him into NATO" as a public servant. Concerned that Anne has yet to find a husband and happiness, Margaret says: "Don't tell me you don't like this one. Why he talks and everything."

Comfortably alone with Philip, when Anne suggests they attend the ballet together, he admits to being married (after having created the impression of being a bachelor) - "You're a rarity," she says for his honesty, ethics, and honorable rules of fair play - but separated. "Good seats at the ballet are hard to get," she says to him before he departs. Like a good banker, he continues to capture her interest with his principles of his unselfish considerateness and expensive gifts, but he's also a sinister artist ("married and can't get a divorce") with a violin.

Philip accepts a position in Paris with NATO, traveling back and forth between France and England (renting a second flat below hers) while Anne takes a new role in a play. Sober and serious for most of the first act of Norman Krasna's screenplay (adapted from his Broadway play, Kind Sir), producer/director Stanley Donan's romantic comedy - Anne tells her housekeeper Doris Banks (Megs Jenkins): "I don't want a lobster; I want a man!" - finally rises to its feet at a dance after Philip informs Anne of his having to leave for several months in New York.

When she tells Alfred and Margaret of her intention of flying to America to meet Philip's ship on the dock, he breaks confidence with Philip's secret followed by Margaret's telling her younger sister of Philip's having deceived her. "How dare he make love to me and not be married!" exclaims Anne.

The fun begins when Philip doesn't know that Anne knows. Hatching her plot (while admitting, "The one thing you can't call him is cheap"), displaying a dozen different moods he'd not before seen in her, Anne vows: "It'll be a nightmare he'll never forget for the rest of his life." Alfred observes: "There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie."

Some things must be determined never to have happened between two people for the future to be fulfilled with happiness.

Click here for links to places to buy or rent this movie in video and/or DVD format, or to buy the soundtrack, posters, books, even used videos, games, electronics and lots of other stuff. I suggest you shop at least two of these places before buying anything. Prices seem to vary continuously. For more information on this film, click on this link to The Internet Movie Database. Type in the name of the movie in the search box and press enter. You will be able to find background information on the film, the actors, and links to much more information.

Copyright © 2010 Patrick Ivers. All rights reserved.
Reproduced with the permission of the copyright holder.

Patrick Ivers can be reached via e-mail at .