Darling, How Could You! (1951)
Director:
Mitchell Leisen
Writers:
Dodie Smith (screenplay), Lesser Samuels (screenplay), J.M. Barrie
Stars:
Joan Fontaine, John Lund, Mona Freeman, Peter Hansen, David Stollery, Virginia Farmer
Darling, How Could You is an amiable adaptation of James M. Barrie's stage perennial Alice-Sit- By-the-Fire. Joan Fontaine and John Lund head the cast as Alice and Robert Grey, who return to London from a five-year sojourn at the Panama canal, where Robert, a doctor, has tended to the sick. Upon arriving home, Mr. and Mrs. Grey must become reacquainted with their ever-growing children, especially precocious teenager Amy (Mona Freeman). Having just seen a play about an errant wife, Amy misinterprets the attentions paid to her mother by young physician Steve Clark (Peter Hanson), leading to a bottomless reserve of whimsically comic complications.