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Theodora Goes Wild is a 1936 American screwball comedy film that tells the story of the residents in a small town who are incensed by a risqué novel, unaware that the book was written under a pseudonym by a member of the town's leading family. It stars Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas and was directed by Richard Boleslawski. The film was written by Mary McCarthy and Sidney Buchman.
Theodora Goes Wild: Directed by Richard Boleslawski. With Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall. The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who would be scandalized if they knew.
Theodora (Irene Dunne) is a provincial writer who wrote a best seller under the pen name Caroline Adams. She 'goes wild' following a trip to New York to meet her publisher. There she met and fell ...
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Mar 11, 2022 · The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who'd be scandalized if t...
Theodora Goes Wild (1936) is one of the lesser-known screwball comedies, a fresh, funny and original one that has been unjustly overlooked. It was also pivotal to the careers of its stars, Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas, and to the screwball genre itself. In his book, Romantic Comedy in Hollywood, James Harvey calls Theodora Goes Wild "the precursor and paradigm of almost every important romantic comedy to follow it," and Sidney Buchman's script "one of the most brilliantly constructed in ...
Theodora Goes Wild marked a turning point in Irene Dunne’s career as her first foray into screwball comedy, in which the actress played a clandestine author of risqué novels unbeknownst to her puritanical aunts and conservative community. Complications abound when the suave and handsome New York artist (Melvyn Douglas) who designs her book covers seeks her out in her small town.
Theodora Goes Wild is a 1936 American screwball comedy film that tells the story of the residents in a small town who are incensed by a risqué novel, unaware that the book was written under a pseudonym by a member of the town's leading family. It stars Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas and was directed by Richard Boleslawski. The film was written by Mary McCarthy and Sidney Buchman. Dunne was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress in a Leading Role and the movie was also nominated for ...
Theodora Goes Wild. Directed by Richard Boleslawski • 1936 • United States Starring Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell. Irene Dunne established herself as one of screwball’s brightest comedic talents with this exuberant tale of a small-town girl living a double life as the secret author of a scandalous bestseller. Being a Sunday ...
The author of a scandalously racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity from her provincial small town neighbors who’d be scandalized if they knew.
Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine. Richard Boleslawski. Director. Sidney Buchman. Screenplay. Mary McCarthy. Story. The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms ...
Theodora Lynn (Irene Dunne) is secretly the author of a salacious novel written under a pen name. She must hide her identity from the residents of her small,...
Theodora Goes Wild (1936) Theodora Goes Wild (1936) "...the precursor and paradigm of almost every important romantic comedy to follow it." - James Harvey, Romantic Comedy in Hollywood. Directed by Richard Boleslawski. A handsome but nosy illustrator (Douglas) gets more than he bargained for when he threatens to reveal to the strait-laced ladies of Lynnfield, Connecticut that their own Theodora Lynn (Dunne) is also, under a pen name, the author of a racy romance novel.
Oct 9, 2017 · Theodora Goes Wild FilmTheodora Lynn (Irene Dunne) is a Sunday school teacher and former church organist in Lynnfield, Connecticut, raised by two spinster au...
Jun 25, 2022 · THEODORA GOES WILD, a photoplay in ten reels by Columbia Pictures Corp. of California. (C) 4Nov36; LP6689. Columbia Pictures Corp. (PWH); 17Jun64; R339656. 761 Views . 14 Favorites. 1 Review . DOWNLOAD OPTIONS download 1 file . H.264 IA download. download 1 file . ITEM TILE download. download 1 file . MPEG4 download. download 1 ...
Oct 8, 2012 · Theodora’s secret is no longer very safe and she finds, upon return to Lynnfield, that Michael Grant has tracked her down in her hometown. Richard Boleslawski directs Theodora Goes Wild (1936), Irene Dunne’s first leading role in a straight comedy. Theodora Goes Wild is a Columbia Pictures release, running at just over an hour and a half.
Theodora Goes Wild ★★★ 1936. Tiny, priggish Lynnfield, Connecticut is shocked to discover that a scandalous best seller about smalltown life has been written pseudonymously by their very own Theodora Lynn (Dunne). When Theodora gets a chance to meet sophisticated New Yorker Michael Grant (Douglas), who did the illustrations for her book, she falls for him. But both must throw aside their own (and everyone else's) expectations and limitations for them to be happy.
Synopsis. The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against ...
Theodora Goes Wild (1936): Irene Dunne The Comedienne By 4 Star Film Fan on Apr 27, 2021 From 4 Star Films. The Lynfield Bugle, led by their fearless leader Jed Waterbury (Thomas Mitchell), keeps their nose to the proverbial grindstone printing the news as it happens in “The Biggest Little Town in Connecticut.” Their latest act of rebellion constitutes printing a spread from the latest lurid b...
Theodora Goes Wild (1936) Movie "RIOTOUS ROMANTIC COMEDY!" Audience Score. 65. Watch on Criterion Channel. NR 1 hr 34 min Nov 12th, 1936 Romance, ...
Theodora Goes Wild is a 1936 American screwball comedy film that tells the story of the residents in a small town who are incensed by a risqué novel, unaware that the book was written under a pseudonym by a member of the town's leading family. It stars Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas and was directed by Richard Boleslawski. The film was written by Mary McCarthy and Sidney Buchman. Dunne was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress in a Leading Role and the movie was also nominated for ...
Dec 9, 2012 · Theodora Goes Wild features the first two actors who ever did it, two of the most active and accomplished actors of the era. THOMAS MITCHELL was first in 1953, when he won the Broadway’s Tony for Hazel Flagg to complete his then-unprecedented trio (Mitchell’s 1939 Oscar was for Stagecoach and his 1953 Emmy for TV’s The Doctor).
Theodora Goes Wild 1h 34m Directed by Richard Boleslawski • 1936 • United States Starring Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell. Irene Dunne established herself as one of screwball’s brightest comedic talents with this exuberant tale of a small-town girl living a double life as the secret author of a scandalous bestseller. Being a Sunday school teacher in conservative Lynnfield, Connecticut, has forced Theodora (Dunne) to use an assumed name to pen a steamy romance novel.
“Theodora Goes Wild” was Irene's first genuine comedy, although there are comedy moments to be found in her earlier films. She claimed that she was very nervous during production and that could explain her - for Irene Dunne's standards - slightly over the top performance. Fortunately, this works in advantage for her, because Irene's character is not wild, just pretending to be, and that nervousness adds the needed air of insecurity to make this pretense believable. ...
