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Mister 880. A sentimental comedy with Edmund Gwenn as an amiable bane of the U.S. Secret Service's counterfeit men (TIME...
...hilarity in the idea of a grandmother falling in love. When Spring Byington moves in with her son's family, she snaps at the maid (Connie Gilchrist), interferes with daughter-in-law Ruth Hussey's raising of the children, and quarrels about food prices with Grocer Edmund Gwenn. Appealed to by her son (Ronald Reagan), she sets out to make amends and, from her apology to Widower Gwenn, a romance blossoms. Her son's employer, Bachelor Charles Coburn, promptly appears as a blustering rival for her affections. All this foolishness allows a lot of tiresome variations...
Though most of Louisa's arch humor misfires, seasoned Actors Gwenn and Coburn get some entertaining slapstick into their schoolboy posturings. Ronald Reagan and Ruth Hussey have little to do except exclaim about the way grandma is carrying on. As the daughter of the family, involved in a dreary little romance of her own, Piper Laurie plays a 17-year-old who seems to have matured every way except mentally...
Mister 880. Edmund Gwenn as a lovable old counterfeiter who baffles the Secret Service for ten years; with Burt Lancaster and Dorothy McGuire (TIME...
Mister 880. Edmund Gwenn as a lovable old counterfeiter who baffles the Secret Service for ten years; with Burt Lancaster and Dorothy McGuire (TIME...