That Uncertain Feeling (film)
- Merle Oberon: Jill
- Melvyn Douglas: Larry
- Burgess Meredith: Sebastian
- Alan Mowbray: Dr. Vengard
- Olive Blakeney: Margie
- Harry Davenport: Jones
- Sig Ruman: Kafka
- Eve Arden: Sally
- Richard Carle: Butler
Marriage comedy is an American film adaptation of Ernst Lubitsch from the year 1941. Victorien Sardou It is based on and Emile de Najacs spectacle Divorçons.
Content
Jill and insurance agent Larry are considered the flagship couple of New York City, as they have been married for six years and their marriage seems carefree. In fact, Jill plague repeatedly Schluckaufanfälle that they do not know to explain. Psychiatrist Vengard to which she goes after some hesitation, diagnosed a marriage crisis. In fact, Jill and Larry have hardly anything to say and if she wants to talk about her hiccups, he has the next business lunches in the head.
Jill met in the waiting room of the psychiatrist the eccentric pianist Sebastian, who finds humanity ugly and sometimes simply rated things with "Ugh ". You walk into a gallery where an abstract portrait hangs showing Sebastian. Jill buys a print of the image and invites Sebastian to Business Larrys with various Hungarian businessmen one. It turns out that Sebastian has studied in Hungary and so he saves the first evening. In the end, however, he sells the visitors' lead when he spend hours at the piano gives a private concert. Only Jill is still there when Sebastian finished his concert the next morning. Both come closer and Larry soon realizes that his wife is having an affair with the pianist - especially now the abstract paintings framed in the home depends. However, Jill's Schluckaufanfälle are gone.
Larry decides after a confrontation with Sebastian to move into a hotel. The divorce is filed and Larry begins a smaller affair with Sally, the secretary of his business partner. Jill again suffers from the coexistence with Sebastian, who day and night only plays the piano, and also the hiccups came back. She flees to Larry when she learns of his relationship with Sally and tries to persuade him to dinner. The appearing to visit Sally sells it without Larry noticed. About the reputation of old photos Larry and Jill get together again. Sebastian, who had left the house after an altercation with Jill and now comes home at night and immediately begins to play the piano, the means in pajamas coming from the bedroom Larry that he should be but quiet. Disillusioned Sebastian grabs his few belongings and pulls out of the house by Jill and Larry from. Larry in turn goes to the front door at night and puts a precaution against the door chain. From then on, the display at the end, Jill had never hiccups.
Production
Marriage comedy was filmed from October to December 1940 and arrived on 20 April 1941 in the cinemas. In the movie it was a remake of Lubitsch's silent film Kiss me again (orig. Kiss Me Again ) from the year 1924.
Criticism
The lexicon of the International film wrote that "from the trivial comedy material [ ... ] by Lubitsch's elegant and sensitive directing an intelligent comedy [ was ]. "