For the Love of Mary 1948

     Mary Peppertree was planning to marry Philip Manning but she decided they had just gotten comfortable with each other and she broke off the engagement.  She changed jobs and moved to a switchboard operator position in the White House.  She meets David Paxton, he wants to talk to the President and Mary is determined not to put his call through.  Then she meets Tom Farrington, he is a naval aide to the President.  She can’t be married and work the switchboard job but she has three men courting her?

     There are so many deliberate confusions in this film that they become tiresome after a while.  Mary has to literally talk fast to keep this ball rolling.  Of course there MUST be singing in a Durbin film!!  2 ½* (This movie is so-so) 

90 min, Comedy directed by Frederick De Cordova with Deanna Durbin, Edmond O’Brien, Don Taylor, Jeffrey Lynn, Ray Collins, Hugo Haas, Harry Davenport, Griff Barnett, Katharine Alexander, James Todd, Morris Ankrum.

Note:  Imdb 6.8 out of 10, 60% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 4.2* out of 5* with 17 reviews.

Special Note:  This film was originally titled White House Girl and it is the last film made by Durbin.  She had been in talks with Universal-International to make films in Paris but this didn’t happen.  She became disillusioned by the quality of the scripts she was offered.