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Saturday, September 15, 2018

Count Your Blessings (1959)

During WWII, a dashing French officer (Rossano Brazzi) sweeps an Englishwoman (Deborah Kerr) off her feet and they marry quickly without time to get to know each other as he is called back to service. When he finally returns home, they find they must get reacquainted all over again and their cultural differences, like his mistress (Patricia Medina), prove an impediment. Based on the novel THE BLESSING by Nancy Mitford and directed by Jean Negulesco (THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN). A rather inane comedy by a lot of talented people who've done better elsewhere. The lead actors aren't particularly known for their comedic abilities but truth to tell, I don't think Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn could done much better although at least they would have chemistry with each other which Kerr and Brazzi most assuredly do not! For Deborah Kerr fans only. With Maurice Chevalier (who for once doesn't overdo his Frenchness), Mona Washbourne, Tom Helmore and young Martin Stephens who would be reunited two years later with Kerr more memorably in THE INNOCENTS.    

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