| Made For Each Other [1939] | ![Made For Each Other [1939]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YMSJNZ2AL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: John Cromwell
Actors: Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Lucile Watson, Eddie Quillan
Studio: Delta Visual Entertainment
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 25108
Format: Black & White, Digital Sound, Hifi Sound, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 99 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
EAN: 4006408830405
ASIN: B00004CZ1W
Theatrical Release Date: February 10, 1939
Release Date: July 19, 1999
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 made for us-the audience July 19, 2008
made for us -the audience
This non-pretentious sincerely simple yet unsophisticated and sentimental movie is great to watch even today for one good reason ,it is straight from the heart .
Selznick casts his characters impeccably and they deliver the goods in perfection with a tongue-in -cheek style that makes for great art from almost trashy plots which have been taken from ordinary human lives .
It employs no grand techniques or deftful lighting ,just narrative driven cinema with plain ordinary lines which make up for everyday joys and sufferrings of humanity ,but with a quint-essential style as art needs a medium to reflect life itself and ordinary life is fascinating when observed from varied perspectives .
Lombard was even better than Kate hepburn as she is so natural that when she goes to say a prayer for her sick son ,you feel a lump in your throat and they did not have to put a chorus with angels singing in the backdrop as you heard them in your inner mind ,that is how powerful the medium can be when used with proper style and content and jimmy and carole with their various quarrels ,interfering mother-in -law ,money shortages and sniffling maids are a delightfully average realistic couple but corny and stylish too,the judge is played by Coburn as Jimmy's boss with an absolutely miraculous method perfection as is the part of the mother by Watson .
There is no alternative for sincsrity in art and this is living proof of that as the movie even today plays upon your heart strings ,we all know it is derived and stylised but it still is great art and that is something you cannot argue with or about as it is abstract and neither measured nor quantified but just as quirky and irrational as human life itself .
USMAN KHAWAJA
An outstanding classic starring Jimmy Stewart and Carole Lombard September 18, 2007
What can go wrong in a movie produced by David Selznick, and starring Jimmy Stewart and Carole Lombard? The answer is nothing, nothing at all. The movie (1939) is brilliantly directed by John Cromwell, sets the stage for future classics such as "Penny Serenade (1941)" and "It's a Wonderful Life (1946)." Newsweek wrote in its review that they were "perfectly cast in the leading roles." This is a family drama about a young couple, named John Mason (James Stewart) and Jane Mason (Carole Lombard), who get married after just one date during John's stay in Boston. When they get back to New York, obviously everyone is surprised; an overpowering and overbearing curmudgeon, named Joseph Doolittle (Charles Coburn) as John's boss at the law firm who is unhappy that John didn't marry his daughter Eunice (Ruth Weston), and Jane's annoying mother-in-law Harriet Mason (Lucile Watson). The problems are typical especially for Jane Mason, after constant complaints and comments of her mother in law that Jane can't cook or clean, and the financial problems created by unexpected responsibility of a new baby on the way. The real star of the movie is Carole Lombard who offers spectacular performance as a newly wed woman trying to do her best, while offering a dinner party for John's boss, or trying to cope with house maids leaving the Mason family after constantly being harassed by Harriet Mason, or advising John as how to stand up for his rights as a man with his boss when asking for a fair wage. Things get worse as John's boss offers a pay cut due to shrinking business, and the new born is seriously sick, and only a serum from Salt Lake City could save the child. As the drama unfolds, everyone pitch in to help, a pilot from Salt Lake City offer to fly in a bad snow storm risking his own life, and John's boss offering to help financially, and emotionally. At the end all ends well and everyone is happy, and John is back in the driver's seat at the law firm.
The story is set during Christmas time, and singing of Auld Lang Syne during New Year's eve is reminiscent of It's a Wonderful Life; while it is heart warming to hear that song, the real tragedy unfolds as the entire set watches the medicine being flown in a private single seat plane during a severe snow storm..
It is a sad irony to watch Carole Lombard playing as a young mother. In real life, happily married to Clark Gable, she was desperate to have a child but sadly that dream remained unfulfilled after the tragic plane crash in Las Vegas in January 1942. Just before boarding the plane, Carole had addressed her fans, saying, "Before I say goodbye to you all, come on and join me in a big cheer! V for Victory" President Franklin D. Roosevelt admired her patriotism, and declared her the first woman killed in the line of duty during the war, and posthumously awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
 Great story - Horrific DVD release!! June 15, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The film has a good story, and it's such a shame the dvd is of such poor quality.
The picture and sound is awful and so is the dvd menu. It does have chapter points, but really thats a thing you expect on most dvds these days.
This is a really bad transfer and you will get tired and annoyed by the poor quality, during the first 5 minutes.
The DVD is released by GMVS Entertainment, a company that has quite a few poor dvd editions on the marked. I myself have learned to stay away from these.
It's a terrible shame the film has yet to be restored, as this is one of Stewart's most charming films.
I recommend waiting for a proper restored edition to be released, or if you're really lucky; to go see it in your local cinema club.
If you really really want it on dvd, check out the region 1 release from MGM.
Get your Kleenex ready January 2, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Never let the seeds stop you from eating the watermelon", the faithful servant tells Carole Lombard's valianty suffering wife and mother in this highly efficient Depression tearjerker. There's quite enough though to stop Lombard and ambitious lawyer hubby James Stewart from enjoying nuclear family bliss. His boss won't give him his deserved promotion and junior partnership, his mother, who lives with them, intensely dislikes her daughter-in-law, and the young couple's firstborn son is taken ill, and the serum that just might save his life will have to make it through a blizzard all the way from Salt Lake City to New York. At the cost of $500 which, obviously, they don't have. The calamities pile up in 'Made For Each Other', and the inspiration from King Vidor's groundbreaking 'The Crowd' makes itself felt, although Cromwell's film is rather less forbidding, and a lot more sentimental. It all gets to be a bit much, and the actors, especially Miss Lombard, are never taken sufficiently advantage of, but Mr. Stewart gets more than his due in a character, befuddled, eternally desillusioned, that would become his speciality. The transfer is grainy, blurry and, frankly, bad, but the movie itself is certainly worth watching.
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