Lucky Partners

Review of Lucky Partners

This review was written on February 23, 2008 at a very nice restaurant designed primarily to accommodate lovers. Two persons at a nearby table were periodically exchanging soft kisses. It was enchanting to watch them—and the movie Lucky Partners came to mind.

Lucky Partners is a 1940s film starring Ginger Rogers and Ronald Colman. Both actors were at the height of their popularity with movie audiences. The setting is Greenwich Village about 1940 and Ginger Rogers plays the character Jean Newton while Ronald Colman plays David Grant.

Jean is delivering a book from her aunt’s shop and passes David. As she passes him he says “Good Luck” with a captivating but innocent smile. And when she decides to turn back and respond you know how the movie will end.

She returns to her Aunt Lucy played by Spring Byington carrying a $300 dress given to her as a gift minutes after David had wished her Good Luck.

At the book shop she notices David in his Bohemian quarters across the street. Naturally they just happen to notice each other at the same time.

She waves the dress showing her best smile. They meet at Nick and Nick’s. Immediately she lets David know that she is engaged. David who doesn’t believe in possessions and respectability does believe however in one thing—honeymoons.
He agrees to go provided he can do something special for Jean with his winnings. He proposes in his toast to Jean a very enchanting honeymoon.

“To our honeymoon”

Jean retains her presence of mind and goes to get her fiancée Freddie played by Jack Carson. Freddie takes David outside for a fight. Large bodied but small minded Freddie sees nothing wrong with the trip. They would be traveling as brother and sister. In fact if it weren’t for his Poughkeepsie promotion he’d like to make the trip with them.

When David and Jean embark for Niagara in the car David has just given her she is quite surprised and happy but deeply suspicious about David’s motives. Freddie arrives just in time to make a complete fool of himself and “leaves” at Jean’s request.

David proves himself totally trustworthy and Jean realizes that she has been suspicious all along. She finds herself in a new place alone with David. Standing and looking into David’s room after Freddie has just left she says “Oh, what a lovely fireplace. I love fireplaces in bedrooms.”

The ending long anticipated by everyone except Jean and David becomes certain only in the last minute of the movie.

This review was published in February 2008 at Amazon.com.

Tagline for this review: If you have ever seen Pride and Prejudice or Casablanca
you will glow watching this movie.

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