Peter22060 Review of Once Upon a Honeymoon

Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

1942 was not a year for laughing, but viewers should understand Hollywood's attempts.

[7/10 · 25 June 2002]

This movie is not a Cary Grant film. It is a Ginger Rogers film with

support from Walter Slezak. As a propoganda comedy to show the

situation as it existed in Europe in 1942 must have been difficult at

best, but the studios were asked to produce movies with a

message. The newspapers did mention Quisling and Lord Haw

Haw, and younger viewers without a sense of the history of the

period have viewed this film on its merits as a film isolated from

the reality as it existed.

Yes, I agree. TO BE OR NOT TO BE with Carole Lombard and Jack

Benny is one of the greatest comedies ever made. Their

supporting cast from Lionel Atwill to Robert Stack is a triumph. It is

sad that all the period pieces can not be viewed for what they were

meant to portray.