Another Language (1933)
Another pairing with the adorable Helen Hayes and charming Robert Montgomery! Technically, this one came first, but I watched it after 1935’s epic drama Vanessa, Her Love Story. This one pairs them together in a different setting, more modern setting. They meet while on vacation and impulsively married, but when they come back home and try to live together, they run into some problems.
There’s an old saying that when you marry a man, you marry his mother. Countless women will disagree, only until they start having problems with their mother-in-law. Helen finds the truth in this, as her mother-in-law, Louise Closser Hale, is a force to be reckoned with. The rest of his family, Henry Travers, Margaret Hamilton, Willard Robertson, Irene Cattell, Minor Watson, and Maidel Turner, aren’t people Helen would choose to live with, but Louise is the worst. She completely disapproves of Helen and notices the fundamental differences between her and Bob. She actively drives a wedge between them and manipulates Bob until he’s forced to choose between them. The only person in the family on Helen’s side is Bob’s nephew, John Beal.
Is Robert Montgomery really old enough to have a nephew the same age as his bride? That’s neither here nor there, but still, if I were Helen, I wouldn’t look twice at anyone else. It’s quite painful to see him have flaws, though, especially deep-seeded flaws that won’t ever go away. When a man sides with his family over his bride, that won’t change. I liked Vanessa, Her Love Story better, so if you’re on Team Bob, you’ll probably feel the same way.
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There’s an old saying that when you marry a man, you marry his mother. Countless women will disagree, only until they start having problems with their mother-in-law. Helen finds the truth in this, as her mother-in-law, Louise Closser Hale, is a force to be reckoned with. The rest of his family, Henry Travers, Margaret Hamilton, Willard Robertson, Irene Cattell, Minor Watson, and Maidel Turner, aren’t people Helen would choose to live with, but Louise is the worst. She completely disapproves of Helen and notices the fundamental differences between her and Bob. She actively drives a wedge between them and manipulates Bob until he’s forced to choose between them. The only person in the family on Helen’s side is Bob’s nephew, John Beal.
Is Robert Montgomery really old enough to have a nephew the same age as his bride? That’s neither here nor there, but still, if I were Helen, I wouldn’t look twice at anyone else. It’s quite painful to see him have flaws, though, especially deep-seeded flaws that won’t ever go away. When a man sides with his family over his bride, that won’t change. I liked Vanessa, Her Love Story better, so if you’re on Team Bob, you’ll probably feel the same way.
Want to watch it? Click here to watch it on ok.ru. And thanks "Classic Movies Kristine Rose" for posting!
More Helen Hayes movies here!