The Good Fairy (1935)
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72% of users liked it
(842 ratings)
Margaret Sullavan graduates from a girl's orphanage to an usherette's job at a Budapest movie theatre. Bibulous millionaire Frank Morgan makes a play for Margaret, but she keeps him at arm's length by picking a name from the phone book and insists that that's the name of her husband.… More Margaret Sullavan graduates from a girl's orphanage to an usherette's job at a Budapest movie theatre. Bibulous millionaire Frank Morgan makes a play for Margaret, but she keeps him at arm's length by picking a name from the phone book and insists that that's the name of her husband. The man chosen at random is attorney Herbert Marshall, who can't understand why Morgan has taken a sudden interest in him. Morgan offers Marshall a huge contract in hopes that Margaret will be "exchanged", but the truth comes out to everyone's satisfaction. Adapted from a Ferenc Molnar play by Preston Sturges (who added a hilarious movie-within-a-movie in which the "stars" emote by speaking in one-syllable sentences), Good Fairy was remade as the Deanna Durbin vehicle I'll Be Yours (47). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- William Wyler
- Written By
- Jane Hinton, Ferenc Molnár, Preston Sturges
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1935 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Sturges' gift for blending the sophisticated with the simple, the cynical with the sentimental has rarely been better evidenced than it is here.
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
Lustrous
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
Morgan steals the show as the millionaire, and the rest of the cast performs with vigor.
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Nick Davis, Nick's Flick Picks
This strange, uncertain film doesn't augur or embody Wyler's subsequent trademarks so much as it calls them into relief through their very absence.
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Cast
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Margaret Sullavan
as Luisa "Lu" Ginglebusher
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Herbert Marshall
as Dr. Max Sporum
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Frank Morgan
as Konrad
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Reginald Owen
as Detlaff
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Alan Hale
as Schlapkohl
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Beulah Bondi
as Dr. Schultz
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Luis Alberni
as Barber
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Eric Blore
as Dr. Metz
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Al Bridge
as Doorman
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June Clayworth
as Actress
- Torben Meyer
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Hugh O'Connell
as Gas Collector
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Cesar Romero
as Joe
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George Davis
as Chauffeur
