DVD We're Not Married

What brings me back to watch this movie over and over is not the great mini-plots of each couple, but the wonderful acting of the many great stars in this film: Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Eve Arden, Paul Douglas, Eddie Bracken, Mitzi Gaynor and a gold-digging Zsa Zsa Gabor, to name most of them. But the real stars to me are the on-screen couple, Ginger Rogers and Fred Allen. I've never found another movie that has Fred Allen in it, and I would love to. Rogers and Allen play a famous radio married couple who open their home every morning to their many listeners and fans. After the show, it turns out they can't stand each other any longer. They are hilarious together!

Don't expect wisdom or profundity from this film. It was made in the days before every director had to teach people a lesson. It's just a cute film.

I'm glad Marilyn is Hardly in This

Melvin Bush (Victor Moore) has been marrying couples, before his time has actually come, as to when he has the authority to do so. The five couples later find out, through a letter, that they are not legally married. Its mixed into different sections, one for each couple, and none of the stars really get a huge amount of screen-time. The couples are played by Fred Allen and Ginger Rogers; David Wayne and Marilyn Monroe; Paul Douglas and Eve Arden; Louis Calhern and Zsa Zsa Gabor; Eddie Bracken and Mitzi Gaynor.

All of the five sections are mostly amusing. Especially Ginger Rogers and Fred Allen, playing a couple of Radio hosts, who were married really just to get the job (and now completely hate each other). The radio show is made up, almost completely, of stupid sponsors, where they have to say the most scripted, and funny things you could come across in a scene such as this. This film is worthy to watch for their scene alone.

This DVD release from 20th Century Fox, as part of the Marilyn Monroe Diamond Collection, has a brilliant transfer, and the sound is very clear, too. The fact that Marilyn Monroe is on the cover, is quite misleading, and Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, or maybe one of the other stars, would have been more realistic to have on the cover. I can accept the fact though, that she is on the cover, because it is part of Fox's Diamond Collection series. The extras is a dissapointment. That's one thing Fox never seem to bother too much with. I wish they would, since some deleted scenes would have been good to add, which I know they could have, aswell. But overall, its a good release.