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Anyone who thinks everyone in the 1950s held marriage sacred hasn't seen We're Not Married, one of the more gleefully cynical snipes ever aim...(read more...)
ed at that fundamental institution. Five couples discover that their marriages aren't legal--Ginger Rogers and Fred Allen as a bickering pair of beloved radio personalities; Marilyn Monroe as a beauty contestant with her oppressed house-husband, David Wayne; Eve Arden and Paul Douglas as a chatty pair who've run out of conversation; Louis Calhern as a kindly tycoon married to gold-digging Zsa Zsa Gabor; and Eddie Bracken as a soldier who's just learned his not-quite-wife Mitzi Gaynor is pregnant. Into their lives comes a letter from the government revealing the truth about their unions, and suddenly everyone considers what their lives might be, if only... We're Not Married spins five variations on a theme, with smart, sly, and sardonic results. --Bret Fetzer
Director:
Edmund Goulding
MPAA: Unrated
Release Date: Jul 11, 1952
Cast:
David Wayne,
Eddie Bracken,
Eve Arden,
Fred Allen,
Ginger Rogers,
James Gleason,
Jane Darwell,
Louis Calhern,
Marilyn Monroe,
Mitzi Gaynor,
Paul Douglas,
Paul Stewart,
Victor Moore,
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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