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Idiot's Delight
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Idiot's Delight

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Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Idiot's Delight starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on Broadway. Set in a lavish alpine hotel bordering an Italian air base, the story throws together several disparate people, each in his or her own way affected by the World War that threatens to erupt at a moment's notice. The only person who doesn't seem to have a political or economic stake in world affairs is Harry Van, a two-bit American entertainer who is stranded in the hotel with his travelling all-girl troupe, 'Les Blondes.' Harry is convinced that the alluring Irene, the foreign-accented 'travelling companion' of munitions tycoon Achille Weber, is actually an American girl with whom he'd had a one-night stand years earlier, but Irene laughs off his insinuations. Eventually, Irene turns to Harry for comfort when Weber proves too disgustingly warmongering for her tastes. When war breaks out and the hotel is targeted for bombing, Harry makes sure that everyone gets to safety; he himself stays behind with Irene, with whom he has fallen in love. The two sing a hymn as the hotel is blown to oblivion. When Idiot's Delight was filmed in 1939, Norma Shearer did her best Lynn Fontanne imitation as Irene, while Clark Gable remained Clark Gable in his interpretation of Harry Van (his song-and-dance rendition of 'Puttin' on the Ritz' is a classic of sneering insouciance). The film underwent an extensive 'MGM-izing': while the pre-European affair between Harry and Irene is never dramatized in the play, the film shows Harry and Irene commiserating in a long prologue set in a seedy vaudeville house--and, in keeping with censorship restrictions, it is made abundantly clear that, while Harry befriends Irene, he does not sleep with her. The munitions manufacturer, here played by Edward Arnold, is depicted as an aberration, and not representative of 'honest' business moguls (many of whom were close personal chums of MGM head Louis B. Mayer). And, while the ending of the play does not tell us whether or not Harry and Irene survive the bombing, the film permits the lovers a sun-streamed happy ending.
Actors: Norma Shearer,
Norma Shearer
Norma Shearer 10 August 1902, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Clark Gable,
Clark Gable
Clark Gable 1 February 1901, Cadiz, Ohio, USA
Edward Arnold,
Edward Arnold
Edward Arnold 18 February 1890, New York City, New York, USA
Charles Coburn,
Charles Coburn
Charles Coburn 19 June 1877, Savannah, Georgia, USA
Joseph Schildkraut,
Joseph Schildkraut
Joseph Schildkraut 22 March 1896, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Burgess Meredith,
Burgess Meredith
Burgess Meredith 16 November 1907, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Laura Hope Crews,
Laura Hope Crews
Laura Hope Crews 12 December 1879, San Francisco, California, USA
Richard Skeets Gallagher,
Richard Skeets Gallagher
Richard Skeets Gallagher July 28, 1891 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Peter Willes,
Peter Willes
Peter Willes April 30, 1913 in London, England, UK
Pat Paterson,
Pat Paterson
Pat Paterson April 10, 1910 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
William Edmunds,
William Edmunds
William Edmunds 1 January 1885, San Fele, Basilicata, Italy
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Genre: DramaComedyMusical
Director: Clarence Brown
Country: United States
Release: 1939
IMDb: 6.5
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Duration: 107 min
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