Three working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison. Another ... Read allThree working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison. Another drinks the poison by mistake and lands a physician for herself. The third marries a busine... Read allThree working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison. Another drinks the poison by mistake and lands a physician for herself. The third marries a businessman. The first girl gets a shop of her own.
- Awards
- 1 win total
- Karl Lanyi
- (as Tyrone Power Jr.)
- Dress Shop Clerk
- (uncredited)
- Chauffeur
- (uncredited)
Featured reviews
And neither does the course of stardom, as the featured stars in this film would soon be replaced by a younger crowd. The Bennett-Lukas affair and Gaynor's adventures with Don Ameche and her magician boss take center stage, while Loretta Young's romance with Tyrone Power gets short shrift.
The film provides an excellent showcase for Don Ameche, Power, and Young, all of whom would take over the star roster at Fox within the next two years.
Power is flawlessly gorgeous and is delightful with Young. This obviously was not lost on 20th Century Fox as the studio would star the two in four films over the next three years.
Bennett and Gaynor were two very early stars, and by 1941, Bennett was doing second leads; Gaynor had her last steady work in films in 1938.
"Ladies in Love" has a great feel to it with its Budapest background, European-based stories being so popular in the '30s, and there are some wonderful performances. Bennett is beautiful and glamorous as the one who's been around the block and Gaynor petite and lively as she carries on a love/hate relationship with Ameche.
Simone Simon has a role as a kittenish young woman who arrives at Lukas' apartment as a cousin by marriage. She looks like she's about 16, but in reality, the actress was 25.
However, she is playing someone who is in school, and I found her relationship with Lukas a little disconcerting. She was probably supposed to be 18.
All in all, an entertaining film signaling a changing of the guard at Fox.
The plot to this film is very much like the later film, "How to Marry a Millionaire". Three young ladies, Susie (Loretta Young), Yoli (Constance Bennett) and Martha (Janet Gaynor) are friends and decided to pool their money and rent a really swanky apartment instead of three separate crappy ones. The goal of this isn't only to live well but to help the women snag swanky husbands as well--and the film is all about their attempts to find the rich man of their dreams.
While I didn't love this film, the acting was very nice (you also get to see the likes of Don Ameche, Tyrone Power, Paul Lukas and Alan Mowbray in the film as well) and the story reasonably interesting. But as I mentioned above, what really caught my by surprise was the ending. It was NOT by the numbers and predictable. Overall not a great film but well worth watching.
Did you know
- TriviaThe film features 4 Oscar winners: Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, Paul Lukas and Don Ameche.
- GoofsFrank Dawson is credited onscreen as "Johann," but he is called "Josef" in the film.
- Quotes
Susie Schmidt: [on dropping her plant] Oh, and I raised that thing from a twig!
Yoli Haydn: It's perfectly all right. All it needs is a new pot.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Tyrone Power: Prince of Fox (2008)
- SoundtracksKunstlerleben (Artist's Life), Op.316
(1867) (uncredited)
Written by Johann Strauss
In the score often
Played as dance music twice
Played also on a record
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- Jóvenes enamoradas
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- Runtime
- 1h 37m(97 min)
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- 1.37 : 1