Two Weeks with Love (1950)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Roy Rowland

Writers:

John Larkin (story)
Dorothy Kingsley (screenplay)
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Release Date:

10 November 1950 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical | Romance

Tagline:

The Gayest LOVE STORY EVER FILMED! (original print ad - many caps)

Plot:

The Robinson family, father, mother and two daughters, are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills...

Plot Keywords:

Singing | Singer | Song | Coming Of Age | Dancer

Cast

Jane Powell	...	Patti Robinson
Ricardo Montalban	...	Demi Armendez
Louis Calhern	...	Horatio Robinson
Ann Harding	...	Katherine Robinson
Phyllis Kirk	...	Valerie Stresemann
Carleton Carpenter	...	Billy Finlay
Debbie Reynolds	...	Melba Robinson
Clinton Sundberg	...	Mr. Finlay
Gary Gray	...	McCormick Robinson
Tommy Rettig	...	Ricky Robinson
Charles Smith	...	Eddie Gavin
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
George Brandt	...	Guest (uncredited)
Lillian Bronson	...	Miss Zilly (uncredited)
Edward Clark	...	Druggist (uncredited)
Lucille Curtis	...	Guest (uncredited)
Jack Daley	...	Guest (uncredited)
Ted Eckelberry	...	Boy (uncredited)
Betty Farrington	...	Customer (uncredited)
Everett Glass	...	Mr. Hibbs (uncredited)
Dickie Humphreys	...	Boy Partner (uncredited)
Mitchell Lewis	...	Mr. Schimpf (uncredited)
Melba Meredith	...	Mrs. Armendez (uncredited)
Dorothy Neumann	...	Miss Pinwhistle (uncredited)
Alice Richey	...	Guest (uncredited)
Fred Santley	...	Guest (uncredited)
Jack Shea	...	Lifeguard (uncredited)
Mary Jane Smith	...	Girl (uncredited)
Bob Stebbins	...	Young Man (uncredited)
Peter M. Thompson	...	Boy (uncredited)
Marjorie Wood	...	Mrs. Stresemann (uncredited)
Wilson Wood	...	Band Leader (uncredited)

Directed by
Roy Rowland

Writing credits
John Larkin		(story)
Dorothy Kingsley		(screenplay) &
John Larkin		(screenplay)

Produced by
Jack Cummings	....	producer

Cinematography by
Alfred Gilks

Film Editing by
Cotton Warburton		(as Irvine Warburton)

Art Direction by
E. Preston Ames		(as Preston Ames)
Cedric Gibbons

Set Decoration by
Richard Pefferle		(as Richard A. Pefferle)
Edwin B. Willis

Costume Design by
Walter Plunkett		(costumes: men)
Helen Rose		(costumes: women)

Makeup Department
Martha Acker	....	hair stylist
Robert Dawn	....	makeup artist
Sydney Guilaroff	....	hair stylist
William Tuttle	....	makeup designer (as William J. Tuttle)

Production Management
Lee Katz	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Marvin Stuart	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Conrad Kahn	....	sound
Douglas Shearer	....	sound

Special Effects by
Warren Newcombe	....	special effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Richard Borland	....	grip (uncredited)
Herbert Fischer	....	camera operator (uncredited)
C.A. Philbrick	....	gaffer (uncredited)
Frank Shugrue	....	still photographer (uncredited)

Music Department
Leo Arnaud	....	orchestrator
Saul Chaplin	....	music arranger: vocal arrangements
George Stoll	....	musical director (as George E. Stoll)

Other crew
Busby Berkeley	....	choreographer
James Gooch	....	associate technicolor color director
Henri Jaffa	....	technicolor color director
Don McDougall	....	script supervisor (as Don MacDougall)

Production Companies

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributors

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1950) (USA) (theatrical)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (USA) (DVD)

Runtime:

Germany:90 min | USA:92 min (Turner library print)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:PG | Australia:G (TV rating) | USA:Approved (PCA #14648) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | West Germany:12

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

The main hotel set had been used some months previously in Annie Get Your Gun (1950). Clinton Sundberg appeared as the hotel manager in both films. In the same "waste not, want not" tradition, some of the "Annie" costumes were also reused.

Goofs:

Continuity: As the parents (Horatio and Katherine) are getting ready to go to "the dance", daughter (Patti) ties her dad's bow tie. She is behind his back and cannot see that she is not tying it centered on her dad's celluloid collar. When the scene changes, she has finished tying it and it is neatly centered on his collar.

Quotes:

Demi Armendez: What? No corset!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain' (2002) (V)

Soundtrack:

My Hero

Bright and shiny fun, M-G-M style!

I haven't seen this one in a long time, since I caught a TV broadcast some years ago. But I'll never forget its gentle high spirits; the warm and humorous work of the ensemble cast; M-G-M's studio-bound but, as always, first-class production values; and, of course, the happy showcasing of Jane Powell at her best. But one thing that amused me the most was the extremely sly performance by Debbie Reynolds, so early in her career. She appeared in many comedy-with-music films in the years to follow but I can't think of one that so cleverly mined her very special talent for, shall we say, winking at the audience and bringing her uniquely appealing sense of humor to the proceedings, without in the least stepping out of character. Think I'll splurge and get my own VHS copy of this one. Nostalgia can be fun, n'est-ce pas?!?