That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

Ernst Lubitsch

Escritores:

Victorien Sardou (play) and
Emile DeNajac (play) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

20 abril 1941 (USA)

Género:

Comedia

Frase comercial:

It's a serious problem for a lady with the hiccups, and he is it!

Plot:

Against her better judgement, happily married Jill Baker is persuaded to see a popular psychoanalyst about her psychosomatic hiccups...

Plot Keywords:

Psychoanalyst | Pianist | Hiccup | Marriage | Insomnia

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Chic, Unusually Bland Lubitsch

Reparto

Merle Oberon	...	Mrs. Jill Baker
Melvyn Douglas	...	Larry Baker
Burgess Meredith	...	Alexander Sebastian
Alan Mowbray	...	Dr. Vengard
Olive Blakeney	...	Margie Stallings
Harry Davenport	...	Jones (the attorney)
Sig Ruman	...	Mr. Kafka (as Sig Rumann)
Eve Arden	...	Sally Aikens (Jones' secretary)
Richard Carle	...	Albert (the butler)

También conocida como:

Ernst Lubitsch's That Uncertain Feeling (USA) (complete title)
Lo que piensan las mujeres (Spain) [es]

Duración:

84 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Clasificación:

France:U | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #6997) | West Germany:12 (nf)

Compañía:

Ernst Lubitsch Productions Inc.

Trivialidades:

Despite the indifferent reception That Uncertain Feeling received, the cast treasured its experience with the master director and the atmosphere he created on set. Meredith enjoyed working on the production and years later recalled, "I don't know when I had a better time in my whole career than during that period." Of Lubitsch, Meredith said, "He was very psychic. I'd fall down laughing because right away he'd improvise, in the middle of a scene he was doing for me, some very personal thing about my life, with his big cigar in his mouth, and he knew I'd come over and say, 'How did you know about that?' and he'd say, 'I have ways of knowing.' "

Citas:

Mrs. Jill Baker: I'm a perfectly normal woman.
Margie Stallings: That sounds awfully dull.
Extra in Ladies Room: My dear you musn't say that about yourself - not even in fun!

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Wide Awake (2006)

Chic, Unusually Bland Lubitsch

A mild romantic comedy that's atypical of Lubitsch. Merle Oberon looks gorgeous. Her clothes are sensational. Melvyn Douglas is not credible as her crass insurance-executive husband. This is the man who taught Garbo to laugh in the same director's "Ninotcha" and was generally suave and somewhat iconoclastic. As the movie proceeds, he settles into a trick-playing husband not quite consistent with the man who've first met.

Burgess Meredith is sort of wasted as the annoying pianist Oberon meets in a psychiatrist's waiting room. (Alan Mowbry is hilariously dry as the analyst. And in some ways, this is a comment on psychoanalysis.) The Meredith character is the most interest. It is a very convincing study in absolute narcissism. He may be accomplished, indeed; but whether he is or not, he is his own greatest fan and protector.

There are swipes at modern art as well as those at analysis. In some ways, it's a little retrograde.

But it's beautifully shot and the design is fabulous. This is the New York City we'd all love to live in. And Oberon looks ravishing. Her performance is convincingly comic, too, though she is so match for Eve Arden in an all too small role.