Julia Misbehaves (1948)
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82% of users liked it
(125 ratings)
After suffering nobly in several heavyweight MGM dramas, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon begged the studio to cast them together in a comedy. Though not an all-out laff riot, Julia Misbehaves strives hard to please. Garson plays an ever-in-debt British music-hall performer who relies on the largess… More After suffering nobly in several heavyweight MGM dramas, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon begged the studio to cast them together in a comedy. Though not an all-out laff riot, Julia Misbehaves strives hard to please. Garson plays an ever-in-debt British music-hall performer who relies on the largess of her friends to keep the wolf from the door. Pidgeon portrays Garson's ex-husband, who for the past 20 years has lived in Paris with their daughter Elizabeth Taylor. When Taylor becomes engaged, she sends Garson a wedding invitation. Broke again, Garson hastily joins an acrobatic act to earn steerage money, and charms British nobleman Nigel Bruce into giving her enough cash for a wedding present. Once she arrives in Paris, Garson sticks her nose into everyone's affairs, much to the dismay of the uptight Pidgeon. Garson even advises daughter Taylor to marry someone other than her betrothed. Despite her screwball behavior, Pidgeon can't help falling in love with Garson all over again--but it takes a zany sequence in and around a mountain chalet to knot together the many loose plotlines. Julia Misbehaves was adapted from The Nutmeg Tree, a novel by Margery Sharp. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Jack Conway
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Aug 8, 1948 Wide
Critic Reviews
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, TIME Magazine
This semi-farcical rehash of Madame X, etc. might have been an entertaining movie, but it is done without gaiety, irony, style or even simple fun.
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Variety Staff, Variety
Fast and vigorous in walloping over the comedy.
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Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Maybe Miss Garson's wild adorers will think it the giddiest sort of lark, but it looks to this anxious observer like a fall on her beautiful face.
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
A charming comedy that shows off Garson's flair for light-heartedness in an unaccustomed role.
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Cast
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Greer Garson
as Julia Packett
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Walter Pidgeon
as William Sylvester Packett
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Peter Lawford
as Ritchie Lorgan
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Elizabeth Taylor
as Susan Packett
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Cesar Romero
as Fred Gennochio
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Lucile Watson
as Mrs. Packett
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Nigel Bruce
as Col. Willowbrook
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Mary Boland
as Mrs. Gennochio
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Reginald Owen
as Bennie Hawkins
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Henry Stephenson
as Lord Pennystone
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Aubrey Mather
as Vicar
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Ian Wolfe
as Hobson
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Fritz Feld
as Pepito
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Phyllis Morris
as Daisy
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Veda Ann Borg
as Louise
- Lola Albright
- Harry Allen
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Jimmy Aubrey
as Drunk
- Shirley Ballard
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Nan Boardman
as Saleslady
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Edmund Breon
as Jamie
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André Charlot
as Stage Doorman
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Marcelle Corday
as Gabby
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Sidney D'Albrook
as Waiter in Pub
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Jean Del Val
as Croupier
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Elspeth Dudgeon
as Woman in Pawn Shop
- Art Foster
- Ruth Hall
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Winifred Harris
as Lady Pennystone
- Joi Lansing
- Connie Leon
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Mitchell Lewis
as Train Official
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James Logan
as Moving Man
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Alphonse Martell
as Frenchman in Theater
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Torben Meyer
as Commissar
- Ottola Nesmith
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Susan Perry
as Girls in Hotel Lobby
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Almira Sessions
as Women in Street
- Cyril Thornton
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David Thursby
as English Sailor
- Patricia Walker
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Victor Wood
as Postman
- George Goldsmith
- Kay Norton
- William Snyder
- James Fairfax
- Fern Eggen
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Bertha Feducha
as Woman in Theater
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Stanley Fraser
as Pawn Shop Clerk
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Marjorie Jackson
as Mannequin
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Princess Michael of Kent
as Acrobatic Troupe
- Ray Saunders
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Joanee Wayne
as The Head
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Herbert Wyndham
as Piano Player in Pub
