Unfinished Business (1941 film): Difference between revisions

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| writer = [[Vicki Baum]] <br> Eugene Thackrey

| music = [[Franz Waxman]] (uncredited)

'''''Unfinished Business''''' is a 1941 American [[romantic comedy film]] directed by [[Gregory La Cava]] and starring [[Irene Dunne]], [[Robert Montgomery (actor)|Robert Montgomery]] and [[Preston Foster]].<ref>Fetrow andp.551</ref> It was produced and directeddistributed by [[GregoryUniversal La CavaPictures]]. A young woman quickly falls in love with a playboy, but when he shows no interest in making her his wife, marries his brother.

On a train to [[New York City]], small-town singer Nancy Andrews meets a sophisticated playboy, Steve Duncan, and quickly falls headin overlove heelswith insophisticated love.playboy Steve barelyDuncan. givesHowever, herSteve aignores second lookher oncewhen they reach their destination.

Rejected duringfollowing an [[opera]] audition for the opera, Nancy hasmust to settle fortake a job as a [[Switchboard operator|telephone operator,]] doingperforming [[singing telegramstelegram]]s. Nightclub [[impresario]] Billy Ross likes her voice and offers her a job. At the club, attorney Tommy Duncan,Steve's brother ofand Steve,attorney getsTommy drunk.Duncan Whenbecomes ainebriated heartbroken Nancyand learnsreveals that Steve is aboutsoon to marry another woman. Nancy, Tommyalso getsdrunk, heragrees tipsyto andescape elopeswith Tommy to a [[South Carolina]] justicefor of the peace with her toa bequick marriedelopement.

NextThe following day, Tommy finds to his surprisediscovers that he is in love with Nancy, butdoes itnot is notlove mutualhim. After they return to New York and throw a party, Nancy kisses Steve, to the consternation ofangering Steve's new wife Sheila as well asand Tommy's old girlfriend. In his disappointment, Tommy enlists in the army and leaves for a Clarisseyear.

A disappointedWhen Tommy enlists in the Army and leaves for a year. Upon returningreturns, he punches his brotherSteve and prepares to grant Nancy her divorce. That's whenHowever, he learns that he and Nancy are parents of a baby boy, and that she is overjoyed to know that Tommy still loves her.

[[Bosley Crowther]] gave the filmIn a decidedly mixedcontemporary review infor ''[[The New York Times]]'', praisingcritic [[Bosley Crowther]] wrote:<blockquote>Any picture which brings Irene Dunne, and Robert Montgomery andto "a goodstate cast"of matrimony, aswith wellthe asdirectorial directorblessing of Gregory La Cava, must, perforce and in truth, have a great deal to recommend it. And a great deal of random charm and pleasantly caustic humor there is, without any dispute, in Universal's 'Unfinished Business,' which provides that denouement in a manner somewhat less than harmonious but feltsufficiently withal ... But this oddly 'Unfinished Business,' in which they wereare so desperately involved, is something to tax the credulity of even the most lenient mind. ... In brief. like many another picture, it makes a romantic plot but not quitemuch sense. ... Mr. La Cava has done a ablelot to savedisguise "a foolish script with glib action", but the trick doesn't quite come off. The unfinished business here lies dead in someone's typewriter.<ref>{{cite news |urldate=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D0CE1DE103FE13BBC4A53DFBF66838A659EDE1941-09-02 |title=Irene Dunne and Robert Montgomery Pick Up 'Unfinished Business,' at the Rivoli |datepages=September 2, 194120 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=}}</ref></blockquote>

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