Main Cast: Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant, Benita Hume
Release Year: 1936
Country: US
Run Time: 99 minutes
Plot
Suzy is the film in which Cary Grant, overcome by the beauty and vivacity of Jean Harlow, sings her a love ballad! This lighthearted moment aside, Suzy, adapted from a novel by Herbert Gorman is a standard-issue love triangle, set against the tapestry of World War I. Harlow plays a London showgirl, married to Irish engineer Franchot Tone. When foreign spy Benita Hume shoots Tone, mistaking him as a threat against her mission, the terrified Harlow flees into the night, certain that she will be accused of her husband's murder. After the war breaks out, Harlow, believing herself a widow, falls in love with handsome aviator Cary Grant. She marries the well-bred but irresponsible young ace, only to discover that Tone has not been killed after all! This being an idealized World War I film, somebody is going to end up sacrificing his/her life on behalf of somebody else, but we're not about to reveal any more. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Review
"This thing is bigger than both of us," Jean Harlow exclaims after discovering that the German lady spy who shot her first husband, Franchot Tone, is now dallying with Cary Grant, her second. The unmasking of nasty Benita Hume is but the latest in a series of wildly implausible coincidences that nearly sink this melodrama, which is slightly buoyed by the performance of Grant, who turns his usually lighthearted insouciance into something a bit more sinister this time around. A replacement for Clark Gable and as such forced to accept third billing after Harlow and Tone, both stellar MGM employees, Grant famously warbles a few bars of Walter Donaldson and Harold Adamson's "Did I Remember (To Tell You I Adored You)," but the screenplay remains a muddled mess which not even such nimble wordsmiths as Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell could fix. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
Cedric Gibbons - Art Director, Gabriel Scognamillo - Art Director, Edwin B. Willis - Art Director, Dolly Tree - Costume Designer, George Fitzmaurice - Director, George Boemler - Editor, Dr. William Axt - Composer (Music Score), Ray June - Cinematographer, Maruice Revnes - Producer, Lenore J. Coffee - Screenwriter, Horace Jackson - Screenwriter, Dorothy Parker - Screenwriter, Alan Campbell - Screenwriter, Herbert Gorman - Book Author
