Paul Jarrico's delightful and original script won a deserved Academy Award nomination for Tom, Dick and Harry. It's a story about young Ginger Rogers who in her search for the perfect mate manages to get herself engaged to three men with the aforementioned names.
Ginger Rogers was probably at the height of her career, just coming off her Academy Award winning performance in Kitty Foyle the previous year. This film is a good followup to that award winner. The men Ginger gets involved with are from all the strata of society.
First there's hard working car salesman George Murphy who loves Ginger well enough, but won't let anything stand in his way of rising to the top and making an extra buck.
Then we have bohemian Burgess Meredith, a happy go lucky garage mechanic who wants nothing more than enough money to keep the rent paid and food on the table. He's a cheap date as Ginger finds out, in fact the best scene in the film is him teaching her about bowling. It's on par with novice fisherman William Powell in Libeled Lady.
In fact Ginger only meets Meredith because he happens to be delivering a very expensive automobile to millionaire Alan Marshal. But eventually Ginger contrives to meet the real Marshal and as she says, he's all she or any red blooded American girl dreams about.
There are some nice fantasy sequences where Ginger imagines married life with all three of these guys and one where she dreams of the forbidden polyandry with them all. That one was kind of skirting the Almighty Code.
Garson Kannin directs a very charming cast in this four sided triangle. Who does Rogers wind up with? No giveaways here, but here's a tip. It's the one who rings her chimes.
Ginger Rogers was probably at the height of her career, just coming off her Academy Award winning performance in Kitty Foyle the previous year. This film is a good followup to that award winner. The men Ginger gets involved with are from all the strata of society.
First there's hard working car salesman George Murphy who loves Ginger well enough, but won't let anything stand in his way of rising to the top and making an extra buck.
Then we have bohemian Burgess Meredith, a happy go lucky garage mechanic who wants nothing more than enough money to keep the rent paid and food on the table. He's a cheap date as Ginger finds out, in fact the best scene in the film is him teaching her about bowling. It's on par with novice fisherman William Powell in Libeled Lady.
In fact Ginger only meets Meredith because he happens to be delivering a very expensive automobile to millionaire Alan Marshal. But eventually Ginger contrives to meet the real Marshal and as she says, he's all she or any red blooded American girl dreams about.
There are some nice fantasy sequences where Ginger imagines married life with all three of these guys and one where she dreams of the forbidden polyandry with them all. That one was kind of skirting the Almighty Code.
Garson Kannin directs a very charming cast in this four sided triangle. Who does Rogers wind up with? No giveaways here, but here's a tip. It's the one who rings her chimes.