Download Our App XoStream

For the Love of Mary

1948

Action / Comedy / Musical / Romance

Plot summary


Uploaded by: FREEMAN

Top cast

Deanna Durbin Photo
Deanna Durbin as Mary Peppertree
Edmond O'Brien Photo
Edmond O'Brien as Lt. Tom Farrington
Hugo Haas Photo
Hugo Haas as Gustav Heindel
Don Taylor Photo
Don Taylor as David Paxton
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
832.2 MB
974*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
P/S ...
1.51 GB
1462*1080
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
P/S 1 / 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by martylee13045burlsink3427 / 10

Farewell our lovely!

I wont make this a mushy mash note to the luminous Miss Durbin (though I do wish there was some way to let her know how lovely and loved her performances remain to this day)...

Her last film is NOT a great classic OR the forgettable muddle it has been labeled by other reviews on this site...(spoiler alert...one of the "reviewers" misidentified who wins dear D. D. at the end...might I suggest a "reviewing").

This is a sweet, lively, silly, but very entertaining little movie that does get a bit too wrapped up in it's enjoyably complicated plot.

The chopping of the final number also hurts (one so wishes that it was on the DVD)...

Still...a great supporting cast, three polished leading men...and the divine Miss D. make it a treasure...

Goodnight Sweet Princess...

We will always love you!

Reviewed by Philipp_Flersheim8 / 10

Deanna Durbin in top form

This is one of the last of Deanna Durbin's movies, and as I knew that by this time she was on the point of leaving the film industry I hesitated to watch it: I just did not expect much, as I assumed it would be evident that Durbin was at this point pretty much fed up with acting. What a mistake. This an intelligent comedy with a surprising ending and a very good cast. Durbin in particular is in top form; her comic timing is impeccable. For me, the high point is her rendition of a piece from the Barber of Seville that is intended for a baritone. She sings this with great good humour (and with a moustache) - it is an absolute lark; you are just left smiling and wishing it would go on. It is an eternal pity that Durbin stopped making films. Had she been around in the 1950s and -60s, Doris Day (almost exactly her age) would have had a much harder time establishing herself as the leading singing comedienne.

Reviewed by Doylenf5 / 10

Deanna's last film is highly forgettable...

It must be reasons like FOR THE LOVE OF MARY that had Deanna packing her duds and leaving Hollywood for good. Seems that Universal was unable to offer her the kind of scripts she wanted which would offer her more substantial roles than this attempt at light-hearted screwball comedy that never once flies into orbit.

The trouble, aside from some pedestrian direction by Frederick de Cordova and some unimpressive sets and costumes, is that the script is a muddled mess with a plot outline that almost defies description, it's so complicated. Naturally, within the bounds of screwball comedy, all the complications are supposed to make the story hilariously funny--but fail to do so, mainly because it's banal material lacking any real wit or wisdom.

Deanna is a Washington miss who has connections well above those of the average switchboard operator, including Supreme Court judges and even the President who happens to listen in on one of her conversations and decides to meddle in her affairs in choosing the right man for a woman being chased by three men.

DEANNA DURBIN sings some four or five songs nicely in her own lovely soprano voice but it's enough to try anyone's patience if they're waiting to hear her sing when the story is so pedestrian. JEFFREY LYNN as a lawyer suitor, EDMOND O'BRIEN as the eventual swain, and DON TAYLOR as one of the unlucky ones, are simply foils for Durbin with no depth to their roles. RAY COLLINS and HARRY DAVENPORT do what they can in lively supporting roles, but nothing really helps.

Too bad for Durbin fans. She was still fetching to look at and used her voice beautifully but the material is fluff, nothing more, and certainly unworthy of her talents. No wonder she had enough.

Read more IMDb reviews