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Alan Hale, Beulah Bondi, Cesar Romero

The Good Fairy is an amusing minor specimen of the sort of Continental whimsy Ernst Lubitsch raised to a fine art. William Wyler, though soon to acquire major-director status, displays little a...( read more  read more... )ffinity for comedy, and, title notwithstanding, the often-magical Margaret Sullavan is notably less magical than in her other '30s efforts (she and Wyler had a great love-hate thing going during filming, and eloped on his motorcycle right afterward). The real stars are screenwriter Preston Sturges and the breed of exuberant character actors with whom he would make manically beautiful music upon turning director himself: Reginald Owen, Eric Blore, Torben Meyer, Luis Alberni, et al. Herbert Marshall sporadically brings a Lubitschean delicacy to his role as the struggling lawyer who doesn't know he's "married" to Sullavan's sweetly balmy movie usherette (it's a long story), and Frank Morgan, as a plutocrat who desperately wants to play the roué, is really the Wizard of Oz in training. --Richard T. Jameson

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Unrated, 97 min.

Directed by: William Wyler

Release Date: February 18, 1935

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DVD Release Date: November 5, 2002

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  • SarahJoyFrost
    December 11, 2006
    SarahJoyFrost
    This film looks alright , i would like to see it!
  • vctrlz
    October 24, 2006
    vctrlz
    stupid looking.
    &¬ in a good way.

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