That's Hennie, as in Hennie Backus, wife of character comic Jim Backus, a talented performer in her own right, best known for being hubby Mr. Magoo's partner in a series of comic records. They were best known for "Delicious" where the two get progressively drunk on champagne, his voice increasingly lecherous, her voice increasingly willing. She flies solo here as a Broadway gossip columnist, spreading the dirt that rising playwright Victor Mature is about to divorce his wife (Jean Simmons) because of rising starlet Monica Lewis who happened to call this little tidbit in. From there, the audience is taken in to the world of their courtship (beginning on New Year's Eve in Times Square) as told through the various people in their lives, those who hope it's a mistake or that the marriage can be patched up.
Among these friends are landlady Jane Darwell, married friends Dabbs Greer and Mary Jo Tarola and newspaper peddler George Cleveland. Theirs is a traditional 50's marriage with the husband a free soul, the wife a sensible homebody and the issues generic. There's the usual squabbling over money carried along by pipe dreams and then the stork's pending visit. Mature gets to be more flamboyant and Simmons rather staid, with the obvious outcome of how these problems end up being resolved.
The structure of the film is played as a comedy but in spite of the mood, it's just not really all that funny or surprising how it all works out. The fact that this is trying to represent the Broadway of the 1950's shows really how little screenplay writers did not know anything about the hustle and bustle of that industry. Mature and Simmons would do better in other screen pairings where the script and direction were a lot stronger.
Among these friends are landlady Jane Darwell, married friends Dabbs Greer and Mary Jo Tarola and newspaper peddler George Cleveland. Theirs is a traditional 50's marriage with the husband a free soul, the wife a sensible homebody and the issues generic. There's the usual squabbling over money carried along by pipe dreams and then the stork's pending visit. Mature gets to be more flamboyant and Simmons rather staid, with the obvious outcome of how these problems end up being resolved.
The structure of the film is played as a comedy but in spite of the mood, it's just not really all that funny or surprising how it all works out. The fact that this is trying to represent the Broadway of the 1950's shows really how little screenplay writers did not know anything about the hustle and bustle of that industry. Mature and Simmons would do better in other screen pairings where the script and direction were a lot stronger.