Louisa (film)

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Louisa
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Directed by Alexander Hall
Written by Stanley Roberts
Produced by Robert Arthur
Starring Ronald Reagan
Charles Coburn
Ruth Hussey
Edmund Gwenn
Spring Byington
Cinematography Maury Gertsman
Edited by Milton Carruth
Music by Frank Skinner
Production
company
Universal International Pictures
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • May 31, 1950 (1950-05-31)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.4 million [1]

Louisa is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Alexander Hall, and starring Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Edmund Gwenn and Spring Byington. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.

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The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound (Leslie I. Carey). [2]

Plot

Grandma Louisa begins dating grocer Henry Hammond, much to the disgust of her son Hal and the rest of the family. Hal's boss Mr. Burnside becomes Hammond's rival for Louisa's affections.

Cast

Reception

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote: "Stanley Roberts has written and Universal-International has produced a thoroughly congenial family comedy in this iconoclastic little film and Alexander Hall has directed it in a nimble and unpretentious style. And, what's best, Spring Byington plays it with deliciously venturesome bounce, ably and winningly assisted by Charles Coburn and Edmund Gwenn. Apparently what Mr. Roberts had in mind when he wrote this film was the loneliness to which older people who have lost their accustomed mates are prone. Only he didn't let the pathos of the prospect get him down. Rather he let it inspire him to look on the brighter side." [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Top Grosses of 1950". Variety. January 3, 1951. p. 58.
  2. ↑ "The 23rd Academy Awards (1951) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
  3. ↑ Crowther, Bosley (1950-10-25). "The Screen in Review". The New York Times . p. 45.


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