Susan Slept Here
Mark gets a Christmas present that isn't on his list: a 17-year-old delinquent named Susan, deposited in his bachelor pad by a cop pal who doesn't her to spend Christmas behind bars.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: November 9, 2010
- Originally Released: 1954
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Dick Powell & Debbie Reynolds | |
| Performer: | Anne Francis, Glenda Farrell, Alvy Moore, Herb Vigran, Les Tremayne, Rita Johnson & Maidie Norman | |
| Directed by | Frank Tashlin | |
| Edited by | Harry Marker | |
| Screenplay by | Alex Gottlieb | |
| Original story by | Alex Gottlieb & Steve Fisher | |
| Composition by | Leigh Harline | |
| Art Direction by | Albert S. D'Agostino & Carroll Clark | |
| Produced by | Harriet Parsons | |
| Director of Photography: | Nicholas Musuraca |
Entertainment Reviews:
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On the whole, "Susan Slept Here" remains as familiar as a summer breeze, but not nearly as refreshing.
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New York Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One scene finds Debbie Reynolds using the golden head of the trademarked Oscar statuette as a makeshift hammer to crack walnuts. In Hollywood, that may have been as shocking as the sight of the desecrated statue of the Virgin Mary in 'The Exorcist.'
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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
This started life as a Broadway comedy and remains very theatrical, despite Tashlin's efforts to goose it into life ...
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Time Out
Some of the gags about 50s Hollywood are priceless (among them a parody of Gene Kelly's dream ballets).
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 2/5 --
It's a surprisingly bad outing considering all the talent involved.
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TV Guide
Like the rest of Tashlin's mid-'50s showbiz satires, SUSAN SLEPT HERE is both naughty and nice, affectionate and cutting...
A.V. Club
Hollywood pictures, I still doggedly maintain, are slowly improving on the average, but I couldn't clinch the argument by citing the present specimen. It's a coy, leering and overdrawn comedy.
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Maclean's Magazine
Description by OLDIES.com:
Screenwriter Mark Christopher gets a Christmas present that isn't on his Santa list: a 17-year-old delinquent named Susan, deposited in his bachelor pad by a cop pal who doesn't want to see the kid spend Christmas behind bars. Touched by Susan's plight, Mark decides there's only one way to keep her out of juvie: marry her in name only and get an annulment when she comes of age. But after a Vegas elopement, Susan isn't so sure she wants to be the ex-Mrs. Christopher. Dick Powell (in his last film role before devoting himself to a hugely successful TV career) and Debbie Reynolds play the (maybe) mismatched couple in a big-hearted romantic comedy from animator-turned-director Frank Tashlin that makes merry use of its Yuletide setting.
Product Description:
A light comedy about a writer who receives an unexpected Christmas present...custody of an 18-year old girl. Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound Recording, Best Song ("Hold My Hand").
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