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Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
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Synopsis: A hilarious screwball comedy that skillfully contrasts the mores and manners of sophisticated New Yorkers with small town Connecticut life. Theodora Lynn is a Sunday school teacher and church... A hilarious screwball comedy that skillfully contrasts the mores and manners of sophisticated New Yorkers with small town Connecticut life. Theodora Lynn is a Sunday school teacher and church organist in Lynnfield. Under a pseudonym, she writes a decadent novel, "The Sinner," which is serialized in the local newspaper. The village is outraged and a group moves to stop it. Theodora takes a trip to New York to meet with her publisher and tells him she can't publicize her work because it would ruin the family name. While in the city, however, Theodora meets Michael, the novel's illustrator, and becomes involved in a real-life romantic scandal. Not only is Michael the son of the lieutenant governor, but he's still married to his estranged wife! [More]
Starring: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall
Starring: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall, Rosalind Keith, Spring Byington, Elisabeth Risdon, Margaret McWade
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Producer: Everett Riskin
Screenwriter: Sidney Buchman
Composer: Morris Stoloff
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Theodora goes silly rather than wild in this outdated look at how they made comedies back then.
A superb scarewball comedy about the transformation of a plain and repressed gir, Theodora Lynn (splendidly played by Irene Dunne) into an eccentric and loving woman. As her uncle says: "A Lynn may go wild but never silly."
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