I'll Be Seeing You
Posted: December 27th, 2013, 6:02 am
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My viewing of Christmas movies is about complete for this year finally. Between Lifetime for Women, INSP, TCM, ABC Family, and all the others that televised them, my DVR was going full speed ahead but I believe this was it for the movies. I still have a few TV shows to watch like Little House on the Prairie, and The Waltons, but I saved this Ginger Rogers movie for the last thinking a movie with her would keep me in the holiday frame of mind for a while and even though it is not the usual Christmas fluff movie, it still left me with a really 'feel good' feeling.
This 1944 movie starring GR and Joseph Cotton was a very untypical romance. I'm not sure I would have cast Mr. Cotton, but he did do a great job as the shell shocked sargeant who meets Ginger on a train and basically follows her to her relatives home for the holidays. Today he'd be arrested for stalking I imagine. Anyway, she's serving time on a ridiculous charge of manslaughter, and he's suffering from today's PTSD. They have a lovely little holiday season from Christmas eve through New Year's Day when they have to part - he, back to the hospital, she, back to prison. Everything goes along just fine until the very last day, - no more for those who didn't see it. I recommend that you do.
Shirley Temple is also along for the ride as a younger cousin. Shirley did a great job in these transitional roles they gave her from child - to teen - to adult. She mastered those roles better than anyone, except perhaps Natalie Wood, but Natalie matured faster than Shirley.
In any case, it's just a sweet little movie - no cops or doctors knocking on the door for check ups or check ins, and no silly dodging from cops on the street or other nonsense. The use of Christmas gives Ginger reason to be out on furlough, but this could have been filmed during any other part of the year. I don't know if it has been on TCM before, but if and when it shows up again, I suggest you prepare yourself for a pleasant hour and 45 minutes of viewing.
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My viewing of Christmas movies is about complete for this year finally. Between Lifetime for Women, INSP, TCM, ABC Family, and all the others that televised them, my DVR was going full speed ahead but I believe this was it for the movies. I still have a few TV shows to watch like Little House on the Prairie, and The Waltons, but I saved this Ginger Rogers movie for the last thinking a movie with her would keep me in the holiday frame of mind for a while and even though it is not the usual Christmas fluff movie, it still left me with a really 'feel good' feeling.
This 1944 movie starring GR and Joseph Cotton was a very untypical romance. I'm not sure I would have cast Mr. Cotton, but he did do a great job as the shell shocked sargeant who meets Ginger on a train and basically follows her to her relatives home for the holidays. Today he'd be arrested for stalking I imagine. Anyway, she's serving time on a ridiculous charge of manslaughter, and he's suffering from today's PTSD. They have a lovely little holiday season from Christmas eve through New Year's Day when they have to part - he, back to the hospital, she, back to prison. Everything goes along just fine until the very last day, - no more for those who didn't see it. I recommend that you do.
Shirley Temple is also along for the ride as a younger cousin. Shirley did a great job in these transitional roles they gave her from child - to teen - to adult. She mastered those roles better than anyone, except perhaps Natalie Wood, but Natalie matured faster than Shirley.
In any case, it's just a sweet little movie - no cops or doctors knocking on the door for check ups or check ins, and no silly dodging from cops on the street or other nonsense. The use of Christmas gives Ginger reason to be out on furlough, but this could have been filmed during any other part of the year. I don't know if it has been on TCM before, but if and when it shows up again, I suggest you prepare yourself for a pleasant hour and 45 minutes of viewing.
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