Movie #219........................."Faithful in My Fashion"

Movie #219 "Faithful in My Fashion" is a black and white film, still another TCM movie on a Wednesday night tribute to Donna Reed, and it was one I hadn't seen, and I'm glad I did. It's not a classic by any means, but it was very refreshing in the story it was telling. I can honestly say it was different from most romantic comedies I had ever seen. Oh, not with the deception on one of the party's part, but on the reason why she was doing it. Here's the premise: Jeff (Tom Drake) returns after being gone for 4 years in the war, and he immediately goes to the store he used to work at, and to see the woman he used to work for, whom he has been carrying a torch for ever since he left ---- and he's been sending her money and he's ready to marry her ---- in his mind. she, Jean (he calls her Chunky? It's Donna Reed, not chunky) sees it a different way ---- he's a guy she dated a few times before he left for the war ---- a hero who now comes home and whom she doesn't want to let down, and neither do the quirky employees at the store --- there are 4 of them led by Edward Everett Horton, along with Spring Byington and Margaret Hamilton (the wicked witch of the west) and they convince Jean to pretend the past fours didn't happen, and that in the four years Jeff was gone, she did not get a huge job boost, she didn't change her apartment, and didn't get engaged - oh my. It's cheesy, chaotic, goofy, but its heart is in the right place. And Tom Drake and Donna Reed play the two characters so sincerely, you can't help but root for them to work it all out. Cute film. I give it 3.7 stars.