PodBill Just what I expected

Monkeywess This is an astonishing documentary that will wring your heart while it bends your mind

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

mjbrown-5 An example of having nearly all the elements, but missing a vital ingredient of enough hold on logic to allow us to suspend our disbelief. Ginger keeps leaving men at the altar and can't figure out why. She has a dream about an native American man as her pugnacious true love interest. This is what intrigued me, considering the era. The puzzling aspect is when her dream lover actually not only appears to her in real life, other people can see and interact with him,too. There's no real explanation as to how this is possible. Granted, it's a fantasy,but even fantasies have certain laws laid out for us to hang onto. In this case, perhaps all that was needed is a little sequence laying out the missing groundwork. For example, if it was explained that Wilde's character is Cupid, in the form of her dream lover, then, OK, we can see him having the ability to interact with mere mortals. It would also clear up Ginger's confusion. She falls for Cupid as her ideal and Cupid must now lead her to the real deal before she falls for him. A missed opportunity. Fine cinematography, gorgeous gowns and Wilde is sexy and funny.

bkoganbing By 1947 the screwball comedies of the Thirties had run their cycle as people wanted a bit more realism. In It Had To Be You, Ginger Rogers plays another dizzy rich heiress who gets cold feet every time she comes up for the moment of truth before the 'I Dos' are said. Well at least she's saving those four prospective husbands a lot of potential alimony.In this case it's hapless heir Ron Randell she's made number four. And this marriage is important to Randell's father, Thurston Hall who wants the millions of Rogers's parents Percy Waram and Spring Byington for his own business.Her ideal man who she conceptualizes is Cornel Wilde and he appears to her in her sleeper car stateroom on a train and springs to life, in an Indian suit. And he won't leave her until she realizes what she subconsciously wants.Later on Wilde appears to her as a blue collar fireman and it's a whirlwind courtship indeed. It Had To Be You seems to be based on taking the performance of Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott in Lady in the Dark which she had done for Paramount a few years earlier. That one also of course involved dream sequences and fantasies. But the idea really went off the track in this film.I'm sure the fact that the Isham Jones-Gus Kahn song from the Twenties, It Had To Be You was enjoying a revival at the time via a hit record made by Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest certainly inspired the title of this film. The song is heard throughout the film.Cornel Wilde showed a certain flair for comedy and he certainly didn't get parts like these too often in his career. Sad to say though that the film while funny in spots seems to run out of gas well before the finish.

vandytwo It's a loss not to find this flick in video. It's a hoot with decent acting (well, for Ginger it's ok) by the cast and a humorous plot. If I could find it on some TV late show, like I did when I first saw it before there was VHS, I'd tape it myself.

lora64 Life holds much promise as Victoria (Ginger Rogers) stands beautifully gowned in her wedding dress next to her chosen mate for the big moment of saying "I do." But to her dismay the words just never do come out and she runs off down the aisle leaving mayhem behind her. This disaster occurs three times, a year apart, in the end leaving her and everyone else exasperated.Enter prospective groom No. 4 named Oliver and she's determined to see it through this time no matter what. However, Fate steps in with a most peculiar fantasy figure (of her imagination it seems) she names George (Cornel Wilde), who creates compromising situations in her life yet gradually points the way out for her bewilderment.When she recalls an old sweetheart from childhood days, Johnny, who is now a fireman (also played by Cornel Wilde), she realizes he's the one for her but there are many tangled threads to set aright.The beginning of the movie is amusing but picks up momentum as it progresses and becomes downright hilarious. I found it very funny where Victoria bursts out in confusion, "But I'm going to marry Oliver," (or words to that effect) as if trying to convince herself. It reminds me of that saying, "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."It's an enjoyable movie with a surprising twist to the ending. I too wish the video was available; was lucky to see it on tv.