Dr. Barnaby Fulton (Cary Grant) is a chemist who is trying to find a position that will make people younger. He is married to a wonderful wife, Edwina who is played by Ginger Rogers, but he cannot seem to pay attention to her at the moment because he cannot get the formula to work on the lab chimps. The next day he goes into his lab to find out that one of the chimps has escaped and gone crazy. He asks the janitor to lock up the chimp so he can get back to work. Well, the bumbling janitor doesn't get the cage locked and the chimp escapes again and creates the potion perfectly and places it in the water cooler. Unbeknown st to Barnaby he tried to his new potion on himself and takes a drink of water out of the cooler. He suddenly feels and acts twenty years younger, but the affects wear off after about six hours. His boss becomes excited about the developments and wants to instantly market it. Barnaby gets his boss to hold off, and he tries the potion on his wife (she was in his lab, and took a drink of water out of that same cooler)to the same effects. The cooler is the running joke of the movie, but it falls flat (simply because humor was different in the fifties than now).
This is the first film I have seen Ginger Rogers in and according to your standards of a good actress I would score her about a 37, she was a treat to watch. The chemistry between grant and Rogers was amazing and felt genuine. The bad thing for me was that this movie went on about 30 minutes too long. Marilyn Monroe was in the movie purely for eye candy, but she did a good job in this one.
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maybe you added this to your list of what to watch because I did a post on it a few months ago, maybe not. My review was similar to yours. I laughed out loud when you referenced my new scoring system. Funny.
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