He never gets the chance to collaborate at all. Pam says that she moved it, then gives the departing policemen one of her own. In 1940, the Lockridges collaborated on the first of what were to be 26 Pam and Gerry North detective novels. Hearing this, Jane faints, infuriating Ben. Owen Davis' play was based on three short stories, written by New York drama critic Richard Lockridge and his wife Frances, for The New Yorker. A year later, the Norths surfaced in a Broadway play. When Pam goes for the mail, she notices the card on their box is covered by one with the name "Blanton" on it. Then very muddy or very shrill. Jan

I first heard this series in the '70s and was taken in by the combo of light romance, danger and mystery. While Pam is sobbing in her room, a man sneaks into the apartment and hides in the closet. When Pam suddenly screams because she thinks a stranger has been in their apartment, Ben recognizes the compact and pockets it. But it's peopled mostly by mannequins, and the simultaneously lively and homey give-and-take that gives the Norths their low-key charm is pulled off course and out of reach, by the decision to turn the film into a Gracie Allen vehicle, even if she does solve the murder by dismembering syntax and logic and rejiggering facts, confidently marching to her own beat. Uploaded by

They knew how to construct them, put all the clues out there, and play fair with their audiences. now playing Mr. & Mrs. North -- (Movie Clip) Don't Lose Your Head!

When the police question Pam and Jerry again, they admit knowing Carol, but Pam says they never met Brent. All rights reserved.

Unknown to Jerry, Louis has been having an affair with Carol Brent and has asked Pam to convince Carol's husband to grant a divorce.

The couple first surfaced in his New York Sun newspaper columns in the '30s, then morphed into New Yorker stories.

Hillary Brooke was listed as a "Guest" in the CBCS, but she was not in the viewed print. When Carol is questioned, Pam arrives and inadvertently reveals Carol's affair with Louis. Jerry North (William Post Jr.) and his wife, Pam (Gracie Allen)return home after a night away in a holiday spirit. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. Overview of Mr. & Mrs. North, 1942, directed by Robert B. Sinclair, with Gracie Allen, William Post Jr., Paul Kelly, at Turner Classic Movies
The acting stalwarts in the Norths' world of hats, gloves and shoulder pads include, by the way, Rose Hobart. The stories are good; the acting, very good; but the distinct pleasure in this show is the well-written repartee between the Norths. But the Norths only made it to the big screen once. Pam (Gracie Allen) confounds husband Gerry (William Post Jr.) with her reasoning before finding a body in the closet in Mr. & Mrs. North, 1942, from the stories by Richard and Frances Lockridge.. View the TCMDb entry for Mr. & Mrs. North (1942) After carefully removing the card, she goes to a party at Stuart's and confronts him. Now, time has taken its toll and tho still good, shows its age. Richard and Frances Lockridge's Mr. and Mrs. North, the only real competition the Charleses had in the married detectives department, were enduringly popular everywhere but in movies. With Gracie Allen, William Post Jr., Paul Kelly, Rose Hobart. In 1953 Barbara Britton and Richard Denning took over the roles of Mr. and Mrs. North. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. Closed Captioning. It's a comedy of obliviousness, especially to what it could – and should – have been. They were interesting enough for me to check out the source - the books by Richard and Frances Lockridge. Film Editing: Ralph Winters Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Mr. and Mrs. North (1942) was an adaptation of the Owen Davis play, and featured William Post, Jr. and Gracie Allen as publisher Gerald P. North and his scatterbrained (and yet oddly deductive) wife Pamela, whose amateur sleuthing nettles cop on the case Paul Kelly. Don't have an account?

All Rights Reserved. Forgot your password? It is finally revealed that Stuart killed Brent because Brent was going to charge him with defrauding him of $50,000.

In 1946, Mr. and Mrs. North received the first Best Radio Drama Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. When they later question Stuart, his alibi, corroborated by his servant, Kumi, is that he was in the kitchen preparing a time-consuming lobster dish for a party and did not want to be disturbed. By Richard Harland Smith, Dashiell Hammett wrote only one novel about his crime-solving married couple, Nick and Nora Charles. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. Mr. & Mrs. North - Don't Lose Your Head! The formula in which a loose cannon of a woman upends a man works for screwball comedy, in fact almost defines the form. They then search his desk and find a note written by Pam, inviting Brent to their apartment on the afternoon of the murder. Cast: Gracie Allen (Pamela 'Pam' North), William Post, Jr. (Gerald P. 'Gerry' North), Paul Kelly (Det.
Just as there's a modicum of enjoyment to be gleaned from the period flavor – the woodenness of much of the dialogue is a campfest! Although they solved a murder a week for years, they never see themselves as anything but amateurs.

Like the rest, he's on the outside, a satellite presence, circling Gracie in wobbly orbit, with perplexed reiterations of "Great Scott" or "Holy smoke!" According to a news item in Hollywood Reporter and M-G-M publicity materials, Henry O'Neill was cast, but he did not appear in the released film. The Mr. and Mrs. North shows popped up irregularly. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. Lauren; Owen Davis (play); Richard Lockridge, Frances Lockridge (stories) Working fast, MGM filmed The Thin Man the same year it was published, in 1934. Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the title roles when the series began in 1942. The series ran on CBS from October 3, 1952 -September 1953, and on NBC from January-July 1954. He doesn't really collaborate on solving the case with Allen's Pam. Cinematography: Harry Stradling Screenplay: S.K. Radio star Allen had been the crimebusting star of Paramount's The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939), helping Warren William's Philo Vance to bring a killer to justice, but additional whodunits were not to be. With William Powell and Myrna Loy as the sophisticated couple (his retired detective provided raffish worldliness, her heiress provided the money), they hit big, making five sequels. The levels are all over the place: very low or very high. While crime and murder are being solved, a touch of humor always permeates the proceedings. The beloved scatterbrained comedienne, foil for her husband George in their Burns & Allen comedy routines, was a veteran of 25 films, mostly, in effect, playing herself. It's not that Mr. and Mrs. North is altogether without merit. But then he doesn't have to.

By this time, Jerry really does think that Pam was having an affair and leaves the apartment. (7 reels), Magazine writer Richard Lockridge had no clue whatsoever that his fictional Manhattan marrieds, Mr. and Mrs. North, would one day wind up amateur detectives. Years of radio and TV episodes followed.

The next day, Talbot goes to the district attorney's office to tell his story, but everyone thinks he is selling brushes and refuses to listen. Mr. & Mrs. North was Gracie Allen's first film since the 1939 Paramount production, The Gracie Allen Murder Case (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3.1691). To view this content, please use one of the following compatible browsers: A sappily married couple discover a murder victim in their closet. And it throws off the chemistry between the Norths. Gerry had been out of town. The spirit soon vanishes when the body of a man falls out of the liquor closet.

Jerry is in no mood to discuss brooms and tries to chase him away, until Talbot says that he came the day before and the man inside would not let him in.

-- it's also fun to note the aberrations – such as the suspect played by Tom Conway (best remembered as The Falcon, a sort of down-market Philo Vance) at a bit of a loss, stripped of his usual suave demeanor, left with nowhere much to go, looking as if he wandered by mistake into the wrong party. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy

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And the Lockridges were accomplished at their craft. The two characters originated in vignettes written by Richard Lockridge for the New York Sun during the thirties, and brought them back for stories that appeared in the New Yorker. zacandan There are a few reasons for this, but the one that mattered most was Gracie Allen. Nov 27, 2013 - Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

The characters of "Pam" and "Jerry North" were featured in a television series, also entitled Mr. and Mrs. North, co-starring Richard Denning and Barbara Britton as the title characters and Francis De Sales as their friend, "Lt. Bill Weigand."