My Love For Yours

MAMA DON'T WANT NO PEAS, NO RICE, NO COCONUT OIl !
This very warm and charming film is very special but not well known. Madeleine Carroll gives one of her best performances opposite Fred MacMurray, who also shines in this quietly affecting comedy-drama. A good screenplay from Virgina Van Upp based on stories by Grace Sartwell Mason and Katharine Brust, and some nice photography from Ted Tetzlaff, make this film very satisfying.

Edward H. Griffith directed this film which is surprisingly good, sneaking up on the viewer until you are fully engrossed in a story which has a very real and mature feel to it. Edith Head dressed the elegant Madeleine Carroll, and she was never lovelier than in "Honeymoon in Bali," also known as "My Love For Yours."

Gail Allen (Madeleine Carroll) runs Morrissey's, an upscale department store. She has success and money and thinks she is happy with her life. Helen Broderick is her friend, Lorna Smith, a slightly older woman who writes novels of romance in far away places. Allan Jones is the...

Ordered the Amazing Adventure and My Love For Yours was the Bonus Movie!
I ordered this DVD from one of the Amazon Marketplace sellers -- it had two movies on the same disk ("Double Feature"), from Dollar Entertainment in a keep case: The Amazing Adventure (1936, British, originally titled The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, 63 min., Maltin's Movie Guide shows 70 min., IMDb shows 80 min. UK and USA: 61 min.), with Cary Grant - filmed in England, and My Love For Yours (1939) (USA - video title), a.k.a. Honeymoon in Bali, Are Husbands Necessary? (USA) (working title) Husbands or Lovers (UK) 95 minutes, with Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Allan Jones (what a set of tonsils on that man), Akim Tamiroff, among other really good actors, and the really sweet Caroline Lee. It was extremely well written and timely even by today's standards. (SPOILER: "I'm not a feminist...," says the main character, who owns her own large department store). There are reviews for this movie under it's own title -- a good family movie in general except for a scene where Fred...

Pre-Women's Lib movie responds: husbands ARE necessary
All Editorial Review Product Descriptions for RCE's red box discs are a c&p text that includes their "100 greatest classic films of all time" blurb. These mostly obscure works are hardly as advertised. Also, picture and sound quality depend on condition of unrestored source material. Good to fair is about average.

MY LOVE FOR YOURS is a public domainer that was theatrically titled, "Honeymoon in Bali." The picture's original "Are Husbands Necessary?" name was jettisoned when leading lady Madeleine Carroll landed in divorce court.

"Bali" is the sort of escapist light comedy that was most common during the Great Depression's earlier years. (F. Scott Fitzgerald is rumored to have contributed to the script.) It's the story of Gail Allen, an upscale career gal whose vow to never marry is sorely tried when Bill Burnett (MacMurray), a visitor to Manhattan from Bali, meets and falls in love with her.

When Bill's marriage proposal is rejected by Gail, he...

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