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Two Weeks with Love

1950 film by Roy Rowland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Two Weeks with Love
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Two Weeks with Love is a 1950 romantic musical film distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Roy Rowland and based on the story "The Tender Hours" written by John Larkin, who cowrote the screenplay with Dorothy Kingsley. The film stars Jane Powell, Ricardo Montalbán, Louis Calhern and Ann Harding.

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Plot

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The Robinson family is lodging at the Stanley House Hotel in a Catskills resort town for their annual two-week vacation. The resort owner's son Billy is enamored with 17-year-old Patti Robinson, who declines all of his invitations, considering him too young. Younger sister Melba is interested in Billy, but he is determined to pursue Patti.

Patti and her friend Valerie, a slightly older actress, compete for the attention of Demi, a handsome Cuban newly arrived at the resort. Valerie gives Patti poor advice on dealing with men and frequently mentions that Patti is still a child.

Despite his wife's objections, Mr. Robinson buys a corset for Patti but inadvertently selects a surgical corset, which has steel bone stays that lock when the wearer bends too far.

Valerie convinces the resort owner to remove Patti from a variety show, but when Valerie cannot find her dancing shoes, she refuses to perform, and Patti takes her place in a dance with Demi. During the dance, Patti's corset locks and she is carried from the stage. Mrs. Robinson releases Patti from the corset and promises to buy her a proper corset the next day. Demi receives permission from Patti's parents to date her when they return to the city.

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Cast

Production

The film project, with a working title of The Tender Hours, was announced in December 1948 as a vehicle for Elizabeth Taylor, with Jack Cummings slated to direct.[1]

The script is based on writer John Larkin's story "The Tender Hours", which had the Catskills town of Stanford, New York as its setting. The town had been known as "the Havana of America" during the time at which the story is set, as it was popular with wealthy traveling Cubans and South Americans.[2]

Reception

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In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic A. H. Weiler wrote:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, whose corporate heart undoubtedly is young and gay and has a large niche in it for Jane Powell, is treating its youthful singing star to a frivolous excursion complete with songs and none too witty sayings in "Two Weeks With Love." Which is to say that the Thanksgiving newcomer ... is no turkey but is hardly substantial fare being long on obvious misunderstandings and juvenile amour and short on imagination. Despite the quaint period costuming, pleasing Technicolor and pre-World War I score, it is still a trifling fable about the tribulations, romantic and otherwise, of a family vacationing in the Catskills, in which the enthusiasm of the cast is superior to its assignment.[3]

Estimates by Variety estimated that the film would earn $2,400,000 in distributor rentals before the end of the year.[4] MGM records indicate that the film earned $1,695,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $1,100,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $199,000.[5]

When the 1914 song "Aba Daba Honeymoon" became a hit after the release of the film, MGM sent Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter on a multicity personal appearance tour of Loews theaters to capitalize on the success of the song and film, beginning at the Oriental Theater in Chicago.[6]

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Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter singing "Aba Daba Honeymoon"
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Music

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Quick facts Soundtrack album by Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Carleton Carpenter, George Stoll and the M-G-M Studio Orchestra, Released ...

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album was issued in 10-inch LP format on MGM Records. All tracks are backed by the M-G-M Studio Orchestra under the direction of Georgie Stoll.[7]

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "A Heart That's Free" (Robyn - Railey) – performed by Jane Powell
  2. "Row, Row, Row" (Monaco - Jerome) – performed by Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter
  3. "Oceana Roll" (Denni - Lewis) – performed by Jane Powell

Side 2

  1. "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (Edwards - Madden) – performed by Jane Powell
  2. "Aba Daba Honeymoon" (Donovan - Fields) – performed by Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter
  3. "My Hero" (Straus - Stange) – performed by Jane Powell
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Awards

"Aba Daba Honeymoon" was nominated by the American Film Institute for inclusion in its AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs list in 2004.[8]

Comic-book adaption

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