. . . for Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon at the honeymoon cabin of their characters, down-on-her-uppers entertainer Julia Packett and rich mama's boy William Sylvester Packett, who Ma P has successfully kept apart for 15 years or so. All's well that ends well, as evidenced by the wonderfully slap-stick roll down the woodshed's collapsing log pile by Greer. JULIA MISBEHAVES has some of the elements of a French farce thrown into its mix, as the viewer practically needs a scorecard to keep track of all of Julia's (and her until now estranged daughter, Susan's) fiancés and would-be fiancés. Elizabeth Taylor is fairly low-key as Susan, but Peter Lawford is a hoot as her first on-screen kisser, as is Cesar Romero as acrobat Fred Ghenoccio, hot on Julia's trail (along with Nigel Bruce, who looks somewhat like the Wizard of Oz, Frank Morgan). All in all, JULIA MISBEHAVES is a fluffy fun frolic!
Review of Julia Misbehaves
