Movie #232........................."Never a Dull Moment"(1950)

Movie #232 "Never a Dull Moment" (1950) is a Fred MacMurray/Irene Dunne comedy based on Kay Swift's autobiography. Here's the plot: Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Gardem Rodeo and they get married, and leave for his ranch in the west. Her friends warn her of an early disillusionment with life on a ranch, far away from the glitter and bright lights of Broadway. Kay makes one difficulty adjustment after another, as the ranch is presided over by Chris's kids, and an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds her heart is with Chris and his children. That's it in a nutshell. It's a fun pre-"Green Acres" type of film, but I beg to differ with the title ---- it's pretty tame in the laughs department --- I've seen both these actors in much better, funnier stuff. It was fun to see a young Natalie Wood (older than Miracle on 34th street, but younger than Splendor in the Grass), and what made this one just a little different is that the major conflict was NOT that she wanted to go home because she couldn't take the farm life ------ she took to that really well, and she dealt with all the ups and downs as a true trooper. So that was a surprise that the conflict was something else. Otherwise, there are films a lot better on the same subject, like "The Egg and I" and that's with Fred MacMurray, too. I'd give it 3 stars.