La telefonista della Casa Bianca

Titolo originale: For the Love of Mary

1948
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1h 30min

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6,6/10

438

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Deanna Durbin, Jeffrey Lynn, and Edmond O'Brien in La telefonista della Casa Bianca (1948)

Classic Musical Political Drama Pop Musical Satire Comedy Musical Romance

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.A young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.A young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.

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This was the last film appearance of Deanna Durbin. On August 22, 1948, two months after the picture wrapped, Universal-International announced a lawsuit brought against Miss Durbin for the sum of $87,083 in wages advanced to her. The actress settled the dispute by agreeing to stay on with the studio for an additional three pictures (including a project intended to be shot in Paris). Instead, Universal-International simply permitted Deanna's contract to expire on August 31, 1949. Upon leaving the studio after 13 years and 21 features, Deanna was paid $150,000 for the three abandoned films plus another $50,000 owed her for this movie. Miss Durbin then retired from all of show business. In subsequent years, producer Joe Pasternak, Deanna's early mentor at Universal, could not persuade Miss Durbin to resume her film career at MGM, and she would reject two prime female leads offered by the studio: in the Jack Cummings production of Cole Porter's Baciami kate! (1953), and in the Pasternak filming of Sigmund Romberg's Il principe studente (1954).

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In the kitchen at Gustav's, Mary is wearing earrings in some shots, but not in others.

Citazioni
David Paxton: "Young lady," said the mysterious diner, "do you know the meaning of the word bumbledon? Bumbledon is the pomposity of petty officials, little people in little jobs, who think the world will stop turning without them."

Colonne sonore
On the Wings of a Song
(uncredited)
Music by Felix Mendelssohn
Adaptation by Edgar Fairchild
Lyrics by Sidney Miller
Sung by Deanna Durbin

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A delightful, charming, effervescent romantic comedy!

What a way to go! "For The Love of Mary" was Deanna Durbin's swansong. She proves what a charming, sparkling entertainer she was in her role as Mary Peppertree, a White House operator. This film (in it's acting, casting of veteran character actors, such as Harry Davenport and Louise Beavers, and it's lyrical though swift pacing) really marks the end of romantic comedy as practiced by the practitioners of screwball comedy. Romantic comedies would never again be this light, unpretentious, and wholesome, in my opinion.

Deanna Durbin shines as a comedic actress in this film as she never did as an adult performer because she never had a comedy script as bright and as fresh as this one. The chemistry between her and Edmond O'Brien is strong and sexy. This is one of the few romantic comedies to believably transport one to an idyllic world in which everyone can be lighthearted and in love with life if one were only in the right place and with the right kind of people.

"For The Love of Mary" deserves far more widespread viewing and critical praise than it currently has. It is great that it is now on video for all to appreciate.