Tea for Two (1950)
This silly remake of No, No, Nanette started out with a very cute and promising premise, but it quickly fizzled out and became just another silly fifties flick. A rich socialite, Doris Day, has given entire financial control to her uncle, S.Z. Sakall, and he’s squandered it in the stock market crash. She’s just agreed to finance her boyfriend’s play, and S.Z. hasn’t the courage to tell her she’s broke. Instead, they make a bet: If she can go forty-eight hours answering every question with “no” he’ll give her twenty-five thousand dollars.
It’s a futile bet, since he doesn’t have the money to give her, should she win, so it’s understandable when S.Z. tries to trip her up at every opportunity. But while that gag is cute for about ten minutes, it gets old fast—as does the insistence of every character that the title song is the best song ever written. The love story between Doris and Gordon MacRae isn’t very compelling, and the romance between Billy De Wolfe and Patrice Wymore isn’t given as much screen time, even though they’re much better suited. Billy, S.Z. and Eve Arden are given ridiculous lines and gags to deliver, so you really can’t blame them when they hop around the screen acting like buffoons. Screenwriter Harry Cork just didn’t give them anything good to do!
The only good part of the movie is Gene Nelson, an incredibly talented and overlooked dancer who no doubt hated Gene Kelly. He has a fantastic dance number in which he dances his way up and down the stairs using the banister! I’d recommend just watching that clip on YouTube and calling it a day. The rest of the movie will be a disappointment.
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It’s a futile bet, since he doesn’t have the money to give her, should she win, so it’s understandable when S.Z. tries to trip her up at every opportunity. But while that gag is cute for about ten minutes, it gets old fast—as does the insistence of every character that the title song is the best song ever written. The love story between Doris and Gordon MacRae isn’t very compelling, and the romance between Billy De Wolfe and Patrice Wymore isn’t given as much screen time, even though they’re much better suited. Billy, S.Z. and Eve Arden are given ridiculous lines and gags to deliver, so you really can’t blame them when they hop around the screen acting like buffoons. Screenwriter Harry Cork just didn’t give them anything good to do!
The only good part of the movie is Gene Nelson, an incredibly talented and overlooked dancer who no doubt hated Gene Kelly. He has a fantastic dance number in which he dances his way up and down the stairs using the banister! I’d recommend just watching that clip on YouTube and calling it a day. The rest of the movie will be a disappointment.
Want to watch it? Click here to watch it on ok.ru. And thanks "Meringue in Sugartown USA" for posting!
More Doris Day movies here!