The Moon's Our Home

But this is a joy from beginning to end. You laugh hysterically at the interplay between the former husband and wife team of sullavan and fonda. It is for me up there with 'Bringing Up Baby', one of my favourite films of all time.

Buy/rent/see this film.


Love the Way Little Jokes of Screwball Sneaked By Censors   April 16, 2001
Paul (New Jersey, The United States of America)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

When the Hays Code began to make sure films were 100% morally correct, the genre of Screwball comedy was born. it was all about going around the censors. It involved romance at a fast pace and the jokes were all clean-or should I say ALMOST all clean. In screwball comedy, you ocassionally find little jokes that went over the head of the straight thinking censors, which, thus, were able to remain on the screen.

In no screwball comedy is that more truthful than in The Moon's Our Home. Margaret Sullivan plays Cherry Chester (her name is one vulgar joke which slipped by the censors). She is a Hollywood actress who one day bumps into Anthony Amberton, a writer whose books she hates. He ,on the other hand, hates the typical Hollywood actress. The only thing is that when they bump into each other, they are using their real names, not "the name by which most people know" them, so they don't realize they hate each other and fall in love.

It is not until after they are married ( the marriage is the funniest scene in the film) that they find out who each other are. This kind of story is the essence of SCREWBALL.

Another of my favorite line (which sneaked by the censors) is "Anothony Amberton has conquered the highest peaks known to travelors!"

Buy this movie if it is at all possible. It is one of my favorite. Also, if possible make sure to hear/download the Lux Radio Theatre Broadcast with Carole Lombard and Jimmy Stewart. It is equally appealing!


MARRIAGE FARCE   May 18, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

An incredibly fun picture to watch, it's even more fascinating for the fact that Sullavan and Fonda made this picture right after they divorced each other in real life! In this bright romp, Maggie's a movie star and Hank's a writer of high adventure; both use pseudonyms for their respective careers and they meet using their real names and marry not knowing that the other is famous! On their honeymoon, Sullavan wears perfume to which Hank is highly allergic and thus you get the gist of this merry screwball flick. Beulah Bondi scores as Fonda's secretary and the always fun hatchet-faced Hamilton is Mitty in the roominghouse scene.


Starlet falls in love with novelist!   December 20, 1998
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

When a shallow and famous star falls in love with a novelist that thinks she is the least interesting person in the world, sparks fly. This is a true romantic comedy with love, adventure and romance. No-wishy washy men in this one!


Bliss   February 2, 2008
toronto
This is one of the great unsung screwball comedies, why it isn't more famous is a complete mystery to me. It is complete bliss from beginning to end, funny, sweet, and it has Margaret Sullavan.

Someone should put it out on DVD, and send a note to everyone on planet Earth that it has returned to life.