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Forever Darling
RRP: $14.98Our Price: $2.99 (subject to change)Editorial
Description
A lot of things can test a marriage, but Lorenzo and Susan Vega have unwittingly put their five-year union to the ultimate test: they go camping. And Susan's guardian angel, seen only by Susan, joins them. TV's I Love Lucy was in its fifth season when this romp gave fans more reasons to love its stars. Desi Arnaz plays Lorenzo, who heads for wide-open spaces to test his chemical company's new product. Wife Susan (Lucille Ball) goes, too. And soon we're all headed for comedy chaos built on tent-raising, forest critters, inflatable rafts and other typical elements of roughing it. There's one atypical element: the angel (James Mason) who wants to rescue their troubled union. Marriages may be made in heaven. But the details are worked out here below
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The hardworking Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball star in the urbane and witty Forever Darling, a 1956 romantic comedy, made at the height of the couple's popularity as co-stars of I Love Lucy, about the difficulty of forging marital harmony. Arnaz plays unpretentious, visionary chemist Lorenzo "Larry" Vega, whose passion for working on a powerful chemical insecticide for the benefit of humankind means little to his wife, Susan (Ball). A creature of high society, Susan is conflicted about her destiny. Should she be concerned with acquiring a bigger house and socializing with the right people, or should she follow Larry as he takes his insecticide on a two-year field study in tropical jungles? Attempting to guide her toward the right decision is a dapper, guardian angel, who happens to take the form of James Mason because Mason is Susan's fantasy man. The script by Helen Deutsch (I'll Cry Tomorrow) indulges I Love Lucy fans with plenty of slapstick set pieces plugged into an extended camping scene. But there's also some flashy banter--Arnaz is very convincing putting well-heeled snobs in their place--and a very clever sequence in which Susan imagines herself as the heroine in a movie she happens to be watching. (A movie starring, yes, James Mason.) There's a fun, special feature in which Arnaz and Ball take time out from production on their television show to plug Forever Darling and reveal the secret of a truly happy marriage--and then get into a beef. --Tom Keogh
Classic LucyReview date: 2009-10-28 Rating: 10 out of 10THis movie is classic Lucielle Ball. It was a must have for me and should be for any Lucy fan.
ReviewsForever DarlingReview date: 2009-07-11 Rating: 10 out of 10I bought this movie for a friend. Its a real nice classic to add to anyones dvd collection. :)Surprisingly unfunnyReview date: 2008-10-04 Rating: 4 out of 10Susan and Larry Vega (Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz) have been married for seven years and are beginning to go their separate ways. Scientist Larry has developed a new insecticide and wants go on a camping trip to Yosemite to test it on the local mosquitoes. Susan hates camping, but her guardian angel (who looks just like James Mason) convinces her to go along.
What a terrible movie. Coming only a year after the heartwarming and very funny The Long, Long Trailer, this movie suffers from a miserable script and even worse direction. While Desi plays an intelligent and admirable man, Lucy is a rich snob whose nagging and fault-finding are pathetic, not funny. The whole James Mason-Angel thing doesn't work at all. He doesn't have any purpose until the last minutes of the story and up until then he's kind of creepy. The story moves at a snail's pace and could have been done in thirty minutes - minus a lot of the mean-spirited marital bickering.
This is a surprisingly unpleasant movie from America's sweethearts, made just four years before their divorce.Lucy movieReview date: 2007-12-02 Rating: 10 out of 10I was so glad when I got my movie in. I been looking for it for ever. I been enjoying it when I get to have my quiet time at home.Not bad for Lucille Ball.....Review date: 2007-05-07 Rating: 8 out of 10Pretty good movie, and funny, but not as funny as some movies (like, the Long, Long Trailer). I thought Lucy acted confused, and not at all like the comedienne we all know and love. However, this is good clean fun, and seeing Desi as a scientist was great fun. Very funny at the end too!
Product Details/SpecificationsActor(s):
Louis Calhern
John Emery
Desi Arnaz
Lucille Ball
James Mason
Creators:
Desi Arnaz (Producer)
Harold Lipstein (Cinematographer)
Bud Molin (Editor)
Dann Cahn (Editor)
Jerry Thorpe (Producer)
Helen Deutsch (Writer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoEAN: 0012569679740Binding: DVDFormat: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Release date: 2006-05-02Universal product code (UPC): 012569679740Number of discs: 1Aspect ratio: 1.85:1Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)Region code: 1Running time: 91 minutesTheatrical release date: 1956-02-09Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: French (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)
Brand: Warner Brothers
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