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Unfaithfully Yours
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Overview

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Director:
Preston Sturges
Writer:
Preston Sturges (screenplay)
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Release Date:
10 December 1948 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Music | Romance more
Tagline:
Will somebody "get her" tonite?
Plot:
Sir Alfred De Carter suspects his wife of infidelity. While conducting a symphony orchestra, he imagines... more | add synopsis
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Seems to be under-appreciated by your users more (30 total)

Cast

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Rex Harrison ... Sir Alfred De Carter
Linda Darnell ... Daphne De Carter
Rudy Vallee ... August Henshler
Barbara Lawrence ... Barbara Henshler
Kurt Kreuger ... Anthony Windborn
Lionel Stander ... Hugo Standoff
Edgar Kennedy ... Detective Sweeney
Al Bridge ... House Detective (as Alan Bridge)
Julius Tannen ... O'Brien
Torben Meyer ... Dr. Schultz
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Symphony Story (USA) (working title)
Unfinished Symphony (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
105 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:S | USA:Approved (certificate #12960)

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Trivia:
The orchestral conductor Sir Alfred de Carter, is based loosely on the real life British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. Beecham was the son of pharmacist Sir Joseph Beecham, the inventor of the laxative Beecham's Pills. Accordingly Harrison's character, Sir Alfred de Carter, is said to be named after Carter's Little Liver Pills, the American equivalent. more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): "Antigonish", a town in Nova Scotia, is mispronounced by an airline official at the beginning of the film. more
Quotes:
Alfred: I give you my solemn word, August: if I don't regain control of myself in a few minutes, concert or no concert, I'll take this candelabrum and beat that walnut you use for a head into a nutburger, I believe they're called! more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Unknown Peter Sellers (2000) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Francesca da Rimini more

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19 out of 24 people found the following comment useful.
Seems to be under-appreciated by your users, 27 May 2002
Author: SHAWFAN from United States

I was surprised to see only one comment on this film in your files. It's been one of my all-time favorites since I was a youngster about the time it was made. Now that I'm reminded by looking it up here that it was a Preston Sturges film I can see why that's so. His classic comedies were unique. It must be also one of Rex Harrison's greatest films. Being a professional musician myself I can especially appreciate the symphonic ambience in which it takes place. I can also appreciate the possible parody Sturges might have had in mind of the great British conductor of those days, Sir Thomas Beecham. The greatest and most memorable visual effect of the movie (I've certainly remembered it all these years most vividly) happened when the Harrison character has to look up the directions for using the recording machine on which he was going to fake the evidence of his wife's still being alive. Onto the screen flashes the most outrageously complex electrical diagram comprehensible only to a professional electrician. This symbolized the inability of modern man to cope with advanced technology. One of the most hilarious moments in film I've ever seen. More viewers should catch up with this one.

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