Talk:Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941 film)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:26, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Plot
Note: WP:FILMPLOT specifies that plots be between 400 and 700 words. This one was 952 words! Wikipedia's consensus guideline requires pruning rather than adding to the plot. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 03:32, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

This was the original plot, before massive additions were made: "Ann (Carole Lombard) and David Smith (Robert Montgomery) are a married couple living in New York who, though happy, often have fights that last for days. One morning, Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her disappointment, he answers he wouldn't. Later that day, they both separately find out from Harry Deever (Charles Halton), an Idaho county official, that, due to a mixup over state borders, their marriage three years earlier is not valid. Ann does not mention this to David, and thinks he will remarry her that very night after he takes her out to a romantic dinner. When this does not happen, she angrily kicks David out of their home.

David spends the night at his club, where a friend, Chuck Benson (Jack Carson) advises him to just wait a day, and then go back home. But when David drops by after work, Ann announces behind a closed door that she is not married to David, and has no intention of ever marrying him.

An angry and disheartened David takes to following Ann around, in the process interrupting a date and getting her fired from her job. David's friend and partner, Jeff (Gene Raymond), tells David he will talk to Ann and persuade her to remarry David. But when David shows up later that evening, he finds that Jeff has instead arranged a date with Ann the following night. David arranges a blind date at the same restaurant, but his date is vulgar and rude and the affair ends in disaster.

Later that evening, Ann and Jeff go to the World's Fair, but become stuck on the Parachute Jump ride and are forced to sit through several hours of rain many feet up in the air. When Ann and Jeff begin to date seriously, Jeff's parents also meet David who reveals intimate details of his relationship to Ann. To escape his attention, Ann and Jeff decide to take a vacation with Jeff's parents at a skiing resort; the same resort where Ann and David had earlier been planning to holiday.

Upon arriving at the resort, they find that David has rented a cabin right next to them, but when confronted, David simply faints. David spends the next few hours pretending to be sick and delirious while Ann fawns over him, but when Ann discovers his deception, she yells at him and leaves. Ann then loudly stages a pretend one-way conversation with Jeff in order for David to see they are very serious about each other. This falls through when David storms in to find her talking to thin air. In the end, Ann and David, once the picture of a happy couple, are screaming at each other when Jeff walks in. Ann then attacks Jeff for not beating up David, and Jeff and his parents leave in a huff.

Ann, alone at last, struggles with her skis until David offers to help her, then lifts up her legs so that she cannot get up. When Ann yells at him, he just bends down and kisses her, silencing her." (519 words) FWiW Bzuk (talk) 03:49, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Derivative?
The plot sounds as though it's borrowed from the J.B. Priestley play of 1938 called 'When we are married'. Is there any reference to this? Valetude (talk) 19:26, 17 October 2018 (UTC)