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Holy Matrimony
The Whole Town's Talking About Woolley and Fields! Wow! What a Love and Laugh Team!
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
- Original title
- Holy Matrimony
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- —
CinemaSerf
Mar 27, 2022 · via TMDB
Monty Woolley is on great form here as the celebrated artist "Priam Farll" (surely that's got to be an anagram of something?) who is mistakenly attributed dead (instead of his valet). Quite content, he basks in the lack of limelight and forges a new life for himself and new wife "Alice" (Gracie Fields). Money starts to get a bit tight, though, and his wife tries to sell one of his lately painted works. The dealer immediately identifies this as a genuine "Farll" and collector "Lady Vale" (Ethel Griffies) is soon collecting them. Of course, it doesn't take long for someone to spot that one of the paintings contains a depiction that did not occur until after the artist was supposed to have died. Allegations of fraud and fakery abound, culminating in a court case that - much like with "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957) is entirely stolen by the charming contribution of Una O'Connor. As you'd expect of an adaption from an Arnold Bennett story, there is humour a-plenty in the script, and Woolley delivers consistently and well. It also takes a pretty potent punt at the somewhat pompous art-dealing community, and at collectors with way more money than sense, too. A small, tight cast of supporting old pros chip in well to make this well worth a watch.
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Monty Woolley
Priam Farll
Gracie Fields
Alice Chalice
Laird Cregar
Clive Oxford
Una O'Connor
Sarah Leek
Alan Mowbray
Mr. Pennington
Melville Cooper
Dr. Caswell
Franklin Pangborn
Duncan Farll
Ethel Griffies
Lady Vale
Eric Blore
Henry Leek
George Zucco
Mr. Crepitude
Fritz Feld
Critic
Whit Bissell
Harry Leek (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Mourner / Juror (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Mourner (uncredited)
Lucien Ballard
Director of Photography
John M. Stahl
Director
Nunnally Johnson
Screenplay
Lady Against the Odds
Dean Spanley
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Pride and Prejudice
Bethlehem Light
Butterfly in the Typewriter
The Lifeboat
Oliver Twist
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Feel the Beat
The Court Jester
The Importance of Being Earnest
Blithe Spirit
Footsteps in the Fog
The Prince and the Pauper
Artists and Models
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Aug 24, 1943
