Film · MGM · 1925
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The Merry Widow
41Leave it.
The kingdom wants her money, and the wooing is only a costume on that errand.
Take controlThis scores 41. The Merry Widow cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
Don't queue Jeanette MacDonald and think you've got this. Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Erich von Stroheim, 1925. A prince, a widow, and a small kingdom that needs her money. It was a hit. It is not The Big Parade, and it is not the 1934 Lubitsch picture.
Adult enough for the wooing, and a house can still sit through it. The fortune is the errand. The romance is the costume on the errand. A little state did not send a prince after a widow for the pleasure of his company. Say the money out loud if the kids are on the couch, or the evening clothes will do the teaching.
Journal
Keep The Merry Widow in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 41. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety and Courage and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Thumbelina
53 instead of 41
Thumbelina is still a romance film, and it scores 53 instead of 41. What you gain is household: The plot is a child separated from her mother.
The eight
- 5Industry
The kingdom's errand is her fortune, and the prince's wooing is how they chase it.
- 4Household
A widow is courted so a marriage can carry her money to a kingdom.
- 3Piety
A prince keeps wooing because a small kingdom needs the widow's fortune.
- 3Courage
The stake in the wooing is her fortune, which the little kingdom means to get.
- 6Republic
A small kingdom needs her money, which is why the prince comes courting.
- 4Temperance
Adult enough for the wooing, with her fortune as the want underneath it.
- 4Truth
The romance is a costume; the fortune is the errand the courtship is running.
- 4Stewardship
What that kingdom would keep is her money, dressed as a love story.
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