YEAR: 1949 STUDIO: Columbia Pictures RUNNING TIME: 85 minutes MARILYN MINUTES: 40 seconds
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"There
were three girls there and Groucho had us each walk away from him. I was
the only one he asked to do it twice." -Marilyn Monroe
Harpo is a true patron of the arts, taking from the rich to help feed a group of
poor actors who are struggling to open a new musical without financial backers.
When he steals a tin of sardines from a classy Fifth Avenue market, he
unknowingly makes off with the missing Romanoff diamonds, smuggled into the
country by a sinful yet scintillating jewel thief. She traces the tin back
to the theatre where she backs the show, hoping to recover the diamonds...and
nearly brings the house down in a madcap race to retrieve the jewels on opening
night!
My opinion:
Although this is not Marilyn's first film she is
given credit as "Introducing Marilyn Monroe". Marilyn's part is only a
walk on and it is brief at best. Don't waste your money on this movie as
Marilyn's scene is shown in virtually every documentary ever made on her.
This was the last Marx brother movie and is considered the worst.
Review:
The New
York Times
"The
Marx Brothers are loose again and have turned the Criterion's screen into a
comic shambles. Love Happy is a helter-skelter entertainment...a see-saw affair;
sometimes the antics are incredibly funny, and sometimes the gags fall with a
flat thud."