Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven't I seen you somewhere before?" Henry Fonda asks Margaret Sullavan at one point in this picture and she, who from 1931 to 1933 was Mrs. Henry Fonda, answers, "Possibly. I'm the girl you mar ried once." However affecting the double-entendre of the exchange may be to people who know all about the private lives of Miss Sullavan and Mr. Fonda, the fact remains that up to the time at which this dialog is spoken, The Moon's Our Home is an agreeable effervescence, which then sags to a repetitious, overcomplicated ending...
Cherry Chester (Margaret Sullavan) meets and marries Anthony Amberton (Fonda) without knowing that he is a famed boy-explorer who has excited her professional jealousy. Amberton is equally ignorant that she is a cinemactress whom he dislikes because she has sponsored a musky perfume. A painful experience in Africa has so conditioned his reaction to musk that when, on their wedding night, his bride applies the sponsored product to her person, he forsakes...
...celebrities--one a Richard Halliburton and the other a Garboish actress--who hate one another's reputation, but fall in love under their original names of Brown and Smith, marry, and presumably fight ever after. But the spirit, praise be, is that of Miss Parker. Margaret Sullavan and Henry Fonda play the parts of the temperamental lovers with high-spirited zest. Charles Butterworth contributes his usual finished dead-pan performance as "menace" and rival of world-traveler Fonda. "The Moon's Our Home" has more chuckles per film foot than any cinema within recent memory...
...Down East" is a gently relaxing New England pastoral. All the scenes are skilfully convincing, so that the audience, even allows such preposterous behavior as Henry, Fonda's turning Rochelle Hudson out into the storm. When the local gossip strides off to the skating party, one is amused; when Andy Devine comes in out of the stormy night, one is convulsed. The entire picture breathes a homely old-fashioned warmth. One becomes a little nostalgic for skating parties, sleigh rides, socials, and the days before the good roads had come to let the outsiders in and the insiders...
...plot is the one which enables Miss Pons to carol Caro Nome from Rigoletto to her provincial music teacher, to make a big splash in Paris, to exhibit her navel in Hindu undress as she negotiates the spectacular Bell Song from Lakmé. Introducing a second formula, Henry Fonda, a U. S. musician who thinks he can compose opera, picks up Miss Pons, performs the impossible under France's laws by marrying her during an evening of drunkenness. Under the mistaken impression that his music is better than his wife's voice, Fonda receives a shock when...