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Revision as of 09:47, 25 October 2023
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| Directed by | Gregory La Cava |
| Written by | Eugene Thackrey |
| Produced by | Gregory La Cava |
| Starring | Irene Dunne Robert Montgomery Preston Foster |
| Cinematography | Joseph A. Valentine |
| Music by | Franz Waxman (uncredited) |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Unfinished Business is a 1941 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery and Preston Foster.
Plot
On a train to New York City, small-town singer Nancy Andrews meets and falls in love with sophisticated playboy Steve Duncan. However, Steve ignores her when they reach their destination.
Rejected following an opera audition, Nancy must take a job as a telephone operator performing singing telegrams. Nightclub impresario Billy Ross likes her voice and offers her a job. At the club, Steve's brother and attorney Tommy Duncan becomes inebriated and reveals that Steve is soon to marry another woman. Nancy, also drunk, agrees to escape with Tommy to South Carolina for a quick elopement.
The following day, Tommy discovers that Nancy does not love him. After they return to New York and throw a party, Nancy kisses Steve, angering Steve's new wife and Tommy's old girlfriend. In his disappointment, Tommy enlists in the army and leaves for a year.
When Tommy returns, he punches Steve and prepares to grant Nancy her divorce. However, he learns that he and Nancy are parents of a baby boy and that she is overjoyed to know that Tommy still loves her.
Cast
- Irene Dunne as Nancy Andrews
- Robert Montgomery as Tommy Duncan
- Preston Foster as Steve Duncan
- Eugene Pallette as Elmer
- Dick Foran as Frank
- Esther Dale as Aunt Mathilda
- James Stewart as Donny James
- Walter Catlett as Billy Ross
- Richard Davies as Richard
- Kathryn Adams as Katy
- Samuel S. Hinds as Uncle
- June Clyde as Clarisse
- Phyllis Barry as Sheila
- Paul Fix as Reporter
Reception
In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote:
Any picture which brings Irene Dunne and Robert Montgomery to a state of matrimony, with the directorial blessing of Gregory La Cava, must, perforce and in truth, have a great deal to recommend it. And a great deal of random charm and pleasantly caustic humor there is, without any dispute, in Universal's 'Unfinished Business,' which provides that denouement in a manner somewhat less than harmonious but sufficiently withal ... But this oddly 'Unfinished Business,' in which they are so desperately involved, is something to tax the credulity of even the most lenient mind. ... In brief. like many another picture, it makes a romantic plot but not much sense. ... Mr. La Cava has done a lot to disguise a foolish script with glib action, but the trick doesn't quite come off. The unfinished business here lies dead in someone's typewriter.[1]
References
- ^ "Irene Dunne and Robert Montgomery Pick Up 'Unfinished Business,' at the Rivoli". The New York Times. 1941-09-02. p. 20.
External links
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