Free and Easy

Free and Easy (1941)

This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Max and Florian Clemington pretend to be members of the landed gentry. Max romances the much-older Lady Joan Culver before finding true love in the form of pretty heiress Martha Gray.

Data di uscita
1941-02-28
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (7)
Durata
56 min
Generi
Romance, Commedia
Regista
George Sidney

Cast

Curiosità

Free and Easy is a 1941 American comedy film directed by George Sidney and starring Robert Cummings, Ruth Hussey, Judith Anderson and Nigel Bruce. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film is a remake of But the Flesh Is Weak (1932) in which Robert Montgomery and C. Aubrey Smith had appeared as the son-and-father team. Both films are based on the 1928 play The Truth Game by Ivor Novello.

Production

It was George Sidney's first feature as director. "Nobody else on the lot would do it," he later said. He had worked at MGM since 1931 and been directing studio shorts and screen tests; two of his shorts won Oscars - Quicker 'n a Wink (1940) and Of Pups and Puzzles (1941). This enabled him to move up to features.

Sidney had directed Robert Cummings in a screen test in 1935.

Cummings was borrowed from Universal in December 1940. Filming started in late December 1940. The week before filming Edward Buzzell was to direct. However then Sidney stepped in. Filming ended in January 1941 though there were some reshoots later in the month.

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