And So They Were Married (1936)

Name: And So They Were Married
Director: Elliott Nugent
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 1936-05-10
Duration: 1 h 14 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor, Edith Fellows, Jackie Moran

Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Romance

A bitter divorcée and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting married again, they begin... See full summary »

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Melvyn Douglas

Stephen Blake
Mary Astor

Edith Farnham
Edith Fellows

Brenda Farnham
Jackie Moran

Tommy Blake
Donald Meek

Hotel Manager
Dorothy Stickney

Miss Peabody
Romaine Callender

Mr. Snirley
Douglas Scott

Horace

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6 April 2017 | ksf-2

| family friendly drama during the film code

Both Astor and Douglas had been in films for years by this time, so we know it'll be a good film. And with Donald Meek, there should be some good antics coming ahead. Too bad they didn't give him a larger part. Blake (Douglas) and Farnham (Astor), and Farnham's daughter are the only guests in a hotel locked in by snow. SO much talking.. this one MUST have started out as a play. According to IMDb, the snow scenes were done at Donner Pass. That is just west of Reno, about 7 hours north of Burbank, so that would have made for a fun winter outing for the actors. Mr. Snirley and Miss Peabody are hotel employees, determined to accompany the only two guests every second, much to their (and OUR !) annoyance. Then Blake's son shows up, and the rest of the film is about the plotting between the two children. Kind of a fun note to hear them talk about esperanto, which has actually been around since 1887. It's okay. No big surprises. Mildly entertaining. Pretty whitewashed and bland for the film code. Astor and Douglas would also make "There's always a Woman" together, as well as a couple television episodes. Directed by Elliott Nugent.

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Trivia

Several people are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Jay Eaton (Assistant Clerk), Ernie Alexander (Drunk), Charles Arnt (Captain of Waiters) and Gennaro Curci (Greek).

Quotes

Hotel Manager: 25 waiters, four chefs, a 10-piece jazz band, and two guests... oooh.

Goofs

After the boy drops a Christmas ornament down onto the head of Brenda, the father chases his son Tommy around the tree yelling "Tommy, Tommy". However once the camera switches angle to the top looking down on the tree Brenda and Tommy point up to see the boy who had thrown the ornament and Tommy throws his own ornament up to the boy. At that point the father is heard yelling "Jackie." This is the actor's real name not the character's name.

Crazy Credits

Opening credits are shown over a snowy, winter scene, a reference to the lodge where the story takes place.

Soundtracks

Jingle Bells
(1857) (uncredited)
Music by James Pierpont
Played on piano by an unidentified man at the lodge