Keeping Company
1940 American film
- December 27, 1940 (1940-12-27)
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Keeping Company is a 1940 American drama film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford and Irene Rich.[1] Morgan plays a real estate broker with three daughters who all have their own problems. The film was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was followed by a sequel This Time for Keeps (1942).[2]
Plot summary
Harry C. Thomas and his wife Susan have a hard time keeping track of their three very different daughters: Evelyn, the eldest, ready for marriage; Mary, engaged to car dealer Ted Foster; and Harriet, an unpredictable adolescent trying to catch up to her sisters, and always on the hunt for ice cream.
Mary's engagement prompts Harry and Susan to give their daughter advice about married life. Mary and Ted are certain that marriage will be a walk in the park, but almost instantly Ted's old girlfriend, Anastasia Atherton, arrives from New York. She needs financial help and Ted gives her a car but doesn't tell Mary about the gift, which causes a misunderstanding when she finds in the car a check Ted wrote for Anastasia. Believing that Ted is having an affair, Mary goes home to her parents. Meanwhile, Ted manages to put the car shop's owner Mr. Hellman at risk, ordering 40 new cars that the intended customer refuses to buy. Humiliated, Ted goes into hiding and Mary must arrange and attend the company picnic alone. Hellman had planned to announce Ted as his successor at the picnic, but he doesn't; Mary scolds him and speaks highly of Ted's good points to bring Hellman to his senses.
Ted reappears and tells everyone that he has managed to save the Hellman company from ruin by selling the cars to another dealer. Hellman talks to Ted, revealing how his wife had stood up for him while he was away. Ted is then reconciled with Mary.[3]
Cast
- Frank Morgan as Harry C. Thomas
- Ann Rutherford as Mary Thomas
- Irene Rich as Mrs. Susan Thomas
- Virginia Weidler as Harriet Thomas
- Gloria DeHaven as Evelyn 'Skinny' Thomas
- John Shelton as Ted 'Teddy' Foster
- Gene Lockhart as Mr. Hellman
- Virginia Weidler as Harriet Thomas
- Virginia Grey as Anastasia 'Stasia' Atherton
- Dan Dailey as Jim Reynolds
- Sara Haden as Mrs. Foster
- Richard Crane as Eddie Lane
- Fern Emmett as Mrs. Miller
- Harry Tyler as Joe Green, Ice Cream Man
- John Webb Dillion as Postman
- Buddy Messinger as Basketball Ticket Boy
References
Bibliography
- Fetrow, Alan G. Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography. McFarland, 1994.
- Schmitt, Gavin. Karl Freund: The Life and Films. McFarland, 2022.
External links
- Keeping Company at IMDb
- Keeping Company at AllMovie
- Keeping Company at the TCM Movie Database
- Keeping Company at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Films directed by S. Sylvan Simon
- A Girl with Ideas (1937)
- Prescription for Romance (1937)
- The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)
- The Nurse from Brooklyn (1938)
- Spring Madness (1938)
- Four Girls in White (1939)
- The Kid from Texas (1939)
- These Glamour Girls (1939)
- Dancing Co-Ed (1939)
- Two Girls on Broadway (1940)
- Sporting Blood (1940)
- Dulcy (1940)
- Keeping Company (1940)
- Washington Melodrama (1941)
- Whistling in the Dark (1941)
- The Bugle Sounds (1942)
- Rio Rita (1942)
- Grand Central Murder (1942)
- Tish (1942)
- Whistling in Dixie (1942)
- Salute to the Marines (1943)
- Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
- Song of the Open Road (1944)
- Son of Lassie (1945)
- Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945)
- Bad Bascomb (1946)
- The Thrill of Brazil (1946)
- The Cockeyed Miracle (1946)
- Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
- I Love Trouble (1948)
- The Fuller Brush Man (1948)
- Lust for Gold (1949)
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