Movie #840 ........................."You Belong to Me"

Movie #840 "You Belong to Me" I really enjoyed this ---- I had never seen it before, but I was anxious to see Stanwyck and Fonda play something different from the classic movie "The Lady Eve" (filmed ironically the same year, 1941) and boy are they different in this one --- she plays a doctor who has decided never to fall in love, and he plays a rich young man about town whom no one thinks will ever settle down --- while treating him for a nasty ski fall, they fall in love.  More than 1/2 the film is very, very funny, with him not knowing how to act as a husband and sending his working wife off to the hospital every day and waiting until she gets home --- but then, silliness creeps into the film in the form of jealousy --- since she's a female doctor, she has to treat male patients (which she seems to have an overabundance of ) and he starts fights with them in the office, etc.  The first couple of times that is okay and funny, but then it gets a little old.  And then she decides to give up everything (her practice) to be with him --- and that was silly to me, too.  Thank goodness it didn't end there --- the ending was good.....just a little quick getting to.  Really, if the two main actors weren't so darn good, the script for this is kind of goofy and probably wouldn't get  a second look from anyone, but they are two actors at their peak right here and "attention must be paid" --- funny, goofy screwball comedy that I recommend if you want to see an oldie but a goodie!

You Belong to Me (1941)    I give it 4 out of 5 stars   94 min  -  Comedy | Romance  -  22 October 1941 (USA) Directed by  Wesley Ruggles Writing Credits   Claude Binyon ... (screenplay)   Dalton Trumbo ... (story) Cast (in credits order) verified as complete   Barbara Stanwyck ... Helen Hunt Henry Fonda ... Peter Kirk Edgar Buchanan ... Billings Roger Clark ... Frederick Vandemer Ruth Donnelly ... Emma

A bored and wealthy playboy, Peter Kirk, meets Dr. Helen Hunt at a ski resort, as the result of an arranged-accident by him. They are married before the snow covers that day's ski-tracks, but trouble is brewing when, because his bride is so busy with her profession, they do not even spend their wedding night together. Peter, with time and money and no profession spends his time alone in the family mansion, while his wife continues her night-and-day work. He begins to work up a fit of jealousness when he notices that most of his wife's patients are male and handsome. He decides to go to work himself and gets a job as a clerk in a department store, which only lasts long enough for writer Dalton Trumbo to insert one of his workers-unite messages, and the store workers do indeed unite and demand that Peter be fired because he doesn't need the job. He then, proving that he indeed did not need the job, buys a hospital that he and his bride can manage together.