Forever Female

1953

Comedy

4
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 21%
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 733 733

playwright actress

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Plot summary

An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.

Director

Irving Rapper Photo
Irving Rapper

Top cast

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Stuart Holmes as Diner at Sardi's
Kenneth Gibson Photo
Kenneth Gibson as Diner at Sardi's
Forbes Murray Photo
Forbes Murray as Actor at Runthrough
Vince Townsend Jr. Photo
Vince Townsend Jr. as Doorman
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862.06 MB
986*720
English 2.0
Approved
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 2
1.56 GB
1480*1080
English 2.0
Approved
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Steve D 4 / 10

Ginger is great in this but the script

Ginger is great in this but the script deteriorates once she has to pretend to be younger.
Reviewed by Jo B 8 / 10

Off the beaten track for many Ginger Rogers

Off the beaten track for many Ginger Rogers fans - this one as well - but worth a watch. It's sort of a reverse view of All About Eve, more benign, but still very centered on the aging female star trying to stay on top (read here YOUNG). Yes, a theme very much relevant in today's world of highly cosmetic surgeried actresses of a certain age - not eath shaking but worth checking out.
Reviewed by jjnxn-1 7 / 10

A cute movie almost ruined by one performance

Charming, slight piece of entertainment sold by it top lined stars and almost scuttled by its featured player.Ginger Rogers and Paul Douglas are most happily matched as the formerly married couple who are still best friends, a great Broadway star and her producer. Their interchanges are expertly played by two pros who are easy in each others company and really seem like they would have been together for years. Her gentle ribbing of him over back alimony is sweet and believable and actually provides a bit of insight into her character. She doesn't really expect to ever get it but neither does she ever plan to write it off either nor does she let get in the way of their relationship.William Holden's part is secondary to the story although he is prominently featured due to his star status. He is his usual charismatic self making the minor part much better than it is. One ironic note is that in a story about Ginger Roger's character realizing she's too old for the ingénue role in Holden's play they cast an actor who is too old for his part. The playwright the way he is referenced should be in his early twenties, Holden extremely handsome and youthful though he may be is 35 if he's a day. He can't be held responsible for that since contract actors were routinely assigned parts at the studios whim.Where the picture runs into trouble is the performance of Pat Crowley in what clearly was planned as a star making part. That didn't happen most probably due to the fact that as directed a more annoying, grating, jejune enactment of a character couldn't be possible. As she constantly proclaims that she is a great talent and better than anyone could imagine you want to push her out of the frame. The actress who did go on to some degree of fame, most notably as the star of TV's Please Don't Eat the Daisies, has proved to be an enjoyable presence elsewhere so the direction must be at fault but she really is hammy and unpleasant here.Many fine character actors, James Gleason, Jesse White, George Reeves, Maidie Norman etc., add nice little touches throughout and hey look in one short scene its the future Mrs. C herself: Marion Ross just starting out.A good comedy played by experts just ignore the ham-bone on the side of the action.
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