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  • I am looking for the name of a movie made sometime in the 1940's, starring Robert Cummings. I only know these various pieces of information that my mother told me about the movie. I'm sorry that this information is so fragmented. The plot as she knows it is as follows:
    The movie starts in a lab. There might be a monkey in the movie. He was going to get married, but complications ensue. This complication might be an old boyfriend, or the woman's parents. He goes to Connecticut. He ends up going out windows, on the roof, in the snow.


  • I asked my mother; it's not the one. I posted on moviefolio.com to ask the same question, but it doesn't seem to be frequented very much. This is the post I used.
    "The movie was a comedy most likely made in the 1940's. She remembers the first scene where Bob Cummings is in a laboratory, and there may have been a monkey in the lab as well. He is engaged to be married and takes a trip to a house in Connecticut to be with his fiancee. Something there causes problems for him and his fiancee. It might be an old boyfriend or her parents. One scene my mother does recall is Bob Cummings climbing out a window onto the roof in the snow to avoid something. She recalls it as a very funny movie"
    It doesn't add very much to your info, but it's all I know.

    Thanks


  • tcica --

    Your mention of a scene in a lab early in the movie leads me to suggest that it just might be "Free For All," which was released in 1949. Plot details are sparse, but here is a short excerpt from a plot description, followed by a link to that description:
    " A pleasant comedy with serious undertones, Free for All stars Robert Cummings as erstwhile inventor Christopher Parker. Hoping to secure a patent on his latest invention--a formula that turns water into gasoline--Parker is flummoxed by yards and yards of governmental and bureaucratic red tape."
    New York Times: Movies: Free For All
    http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=18561


    What do you think?


    markj-ga


  • Hi tcica,

    Could this be the movie?

    It Started with Eve (1941)
    A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033766/


    Best regards,
    Rainbow


  • It's almost certainly "Free for All." None of his other movies made during that decade sound even remotely like it. Here's a reproduction of a lobby card from the film. Perhaps that will jog her memory!
    http://www.posterpalace.com/category_nav.lasso?-database=posterpalace_search&-layout=web&-response=detail.html&-recordID=34152&-token.searchparms=comedy&-search









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