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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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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