With a box office of just $1.3 million in ticket sales, "Affectionately Yours" probably didn't come near covering its budget. With its big-name cast, it should have been a big draw. But, finishing the year in 166th is a sign that it probably bombed. When something like that happens - with such a cast, it's a sure thing that the story - the plot, is a dud. Even stars such as these - Merle Oberon, Rita Hayworth, Dennis Morgan, Ralph Bellamy - can't save a lousy story.
I don't know what the critics might have written or said about this film, but I'd wager it wasn't very good. When a film has such poor box office results, it's likely that the first audiences spread the word that the film stinks. And, this sure is a stinker for Warner Brothers.
The plot is all about a married American foreign correspondent who has girlfriends in every city where he has been to cover news events. He's been married four years, but spends most of his time away in Europe. His line with each of his women friends is that he'd marry her in a minute, if only he wasn't already married. When he finally learns that his wife has actually divorced him, he heads back to the States from Lisbon, against his editors orders.
The ex-wife is now planning to marry another guy. But now, the correspondent wants to prevent her from doing that. She still loves the guy (so she'll marry another guy to prove that point?), but he's a chronic liar. No one watching this film could possibly believe he still loved her. But the film is a series of back and forth charades and lies on his part trying to dupe her into not marrying the other guy.
This is a lame comedy romance. The dialog is humorless - no witty, clever or even memorable lines. Morgan's Rick Mayberry runs around trying to stop Oberon's Sue Mayberry from seeing and then marrying Bellamy's Owen Wright. Hayworth's Irene Malcolm is another correspondent who is one of those other women Rick would marry in a minute.
Some zany movies can be very good if the material is genuinely funny. But this film won't generate so much as a chuckle with most sober movie buffs. I think I gave it four stars for the supporting cast.
I don't know what the critics might have written or said about this film, but I'd wager it wasn't very good. When a film has such poor box office results, it's likely that the first audiences spread the word that the film stinks. And, this sure is a stinker for Warner Brothers.
The plot is all about a married American foreign correspondent who has girlfriends in every city where he has been to cover news events. He's been married four years, but spends most of his time away in Europe. His line with each of his women friends is that he'd marry her in a minute, if only he wasn't already married. When he finally learns that his wife has actually divorced him, he heads back to the States from Lisbon, against his editors orders.
The ex-wife is now planning to marry another guy. But now, the correspondent wants to prevent her from doing that. She still loves the guy (so she'll marry another guy to prove that point?), but he's a chronic liar. No one watching this film could possibly believe he still loved her. But the film is a series of back and forth charades and lies on his part trying to dupe her into not marrying the other guy.
This is a lame comedy romance. The dialog is humorless - no witty, clever or even memorable lines. Morgan's Rick Mayberry runs around trying to stop Oberon's Sue Mayberry from seeing and then marrying Bellamy's Owen Wright. Hayworth's Irene Malcolm is another correspondent who is one of those other women Rick would marry in a minute.
Some zany movies can be very good if the material is genuinely funny. But this film won't generate so much as a chuckle with most sober movie buffs. I think I gave it four stars for the supporting cast.