Let's Make It Legal

• Director: Richard Sale
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Comedy
• Movie Type: Romantic Comedy
• Themes: Love Triangles, Crumbling Marriages, Gambling
• Main Cast: Claudette Colbert, MacDonald Carey, Zachary Scott, Barbara Bates, Robert Wagner
• Release Year: 1951
• Country: US
• Run Time: 77 minutes

Plot

Let's Make It Legal begins at the end--the end of the long marriage between beautiful grandmother Miriam (Claudette Colbert) and her chronic-gambler husband Hugh (Macdonald Carey). Barbara (Barbara Bates), the daughter of the couple, hopes to bring her parents back together, which proves to be a difficult proposition when Miriam's old flame Victor (Zachary Scott), now a millionaire, arrives in town. Hugh tries all sorts of comic strategies to win his ex-wife back, but to no avail. Ultimately, Miriam must choose between the financially solvent Victor and the impishly irresponsible Hugh. This being a comedy, it isn't hard to figure who's going to be headed to the altar at fade-out time. Let's Make It Legal was partly designed to showcase two of Fox's up-and-coming contract players: Robert Wagner and Marilyn Monroe. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Claudette Colbert - Miriam Denham
• MacDonald Carey - Hugh Halsworth
• Zachary Scott - Victor Macfarland
• Barbara Bates - Barbara Denham
• Robert Wagner - Jerry Denham

Marilyn Monroe - Joyce; Frank Cady - Ferguson; Jim Hayward - Gardener; Carol Savage - Miss Jessup; Paul Gerrits - Milkman; Vicki Raaf - Hugh's Secretary; Ralph Sanford - Police Lieutenant; Harry Denny - Hotel Manager; Harry Harvey - Postman; Betty Jane Bowan - Secretary; Abe Dinovitch - Laborer; Kathleen Freeman - Reporter; Renny McEvoy; Michael Ross - Policeman; Frank Sully - Laborer; Beverly Thompson - Reporter; Wilson Wood - Reporter; James Magill - Reporter; Jack Mather - Policeman; Roger Moore - Reporter

Credit

Lyle Wheeler - Art Director, Albert Hogsett - Art Director, Richard Sale - Director, Robert Fritch - Editor, Cyril Mockridge - Composer (Music Score), Lionel Newman - Musical Direction/Supervision, Lucien Ballard - Cinematographer, Robert Bassler - Producer, Mortimer Braus - Screen Story, I.A.L. Diamond - Screenwriter, Frederick Hugh Herbert - Screenwriter

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