Release Date: Nov 6, 1951 Wide
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Let's Make It Legal begins at the end--the end of the long marriage between beautiful grandmother Miriam (Claudette Colbert) and her chronic-gambler husband Hugh (Macdonald Carey). Barbara (Barbara Bates), the daughter of the couple, hopes to bring her parents back together, which proves to be a difficult proposition when Miriam's old flame Victor (Zachary Scott), now a millionaire, arrives in town. Hugh tries all sorts of comic strategies to win his ex-wife back, but to no avail. Ultimately,
Nov 6, 1951 Wide
Apr 20, 2004
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
All Critics (5) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (2) | DVD (8)
A mostly worthless film
Remember the golden days of the 40's and 50's, with all the drama and frivolity of musicals and comedies. Yeah, this didn't fit into that category at all. A short, petty "comedy" about the eccentricities of divorce, and the beginnings of the lives of newlyweds, there was little to comment on kindly. It was so short the
October 17, 2010Super Reviewer
A charming if insubstantial way to spend a little over an hour. Claudette Colbert and MacDonald Carey have an easy chemistry that make them believable as a long together couple. Barbara Bates' and Robert Wagner's portrayal of battling newlyweds is unconvincing and uncomfortable (as is their subplot.) But a must watch
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