The Mating Season (1951)

Directed by

Mitchell Leisen

Genre

screwball comedy film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man brings his new wife to meet his family and hires his mother, who is working as a cook, to pretend to be a servant. Misunderstandings and class clashes drive the comedy.

light-heartedwittybriskcheerfulaffectionatemildly farcical

What happens

The Mating Season is a 1951 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter, and Jan Sterling. The film was produced by Charles Brackett from a screenplay that he co-wrote with Walter Reisch and Richard Breen, based on the play Maggie by Caesar Dunn. The film was considered Ritter's breakout performance and earned her strongly positive reviews. Shortly before the film's release, syndicated columnist Bob Thomas called her Hollywood's "most talked-about new starlet". Ritter's performance earned her second of four consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was nominated for the award six times, the most of any actress in history, but never won it. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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