Goodbye, My Fancy

Infobox Film
name = Goodbye, My Fancy


image_size =
caption = Original theatrical poster
director = Vincent Sherman
producer = Henry Blanke
writer = Play:
Kay Fanin
Screenplay:
Ivan Goff
starring = Joan Crawford
Robert Young
music = Daniele Amfitheatrof
cinematography = Ted D. McCord
editing = Rudi Fehr
distributor = Warner Bros.
released = flagicon|USA 30 May 1951
runtime = 107 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0043595

"Goodbye, My Fancy" (1951) is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford and Robert Young in a light tale about a woman and her old flame. The screenplay by Ivan Goff was based upon a 1948 play by Kay Fanin. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman and produced by Henry Blanke. "Goodbye, My Fancy" was the third and last cinematic collaboration between Sherman and Crawford.

Plot and cast

U.S. Representative Agatha Reed (Joan Crawford) returns to her alma mater to receive an honorary degree. Reed was expelled from the school years earlier for participating in an all-night date with young professor, Dr. James Merrill (Robert Young), now the university president. The romantic fires are rekindled when the two meet. Matt Cole (Frank Lovejoy), a photographer who loves Reed, believes her feeling for Merrill is simply an unresolved hold-over from her girlhood and follows her to the school. A subplot involves Reed embroiled in a university matter over progressive teaching methods with Dr. Pitt (Morgan Farley), trustee Claude Griswold (Howard St. John) and his wife Ellen Griswold (Lurene Tuttle). After a series of misunderstandings, Reed realizes she belongs with Cole and should put away her romantic fancies of Merrill. Other players in the film include Eve Arden, Janice Rule, and Ellen Corby.

Reception

"Variety" commented, "Performances are very slick, under Vincent Sherman's direction. Miss Crawford...sustains the romantic, middle-aged congresswoman with a light touch that is excellent," while Bosley Crowther in the "New York Times" generally panned the film, writing, "Miss Crawford's errant congresswoman is as aloof and imposing as the capital dome." [Quirk, Lawrence J.. "The Films of Joan Crawford". The Citadel Press, 1968.] .

ee also

*Joan Crawford filmography

References

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name = Joan Crawford
title = The 1940-1970 Films of Miss Joan Crawford
group1 = 1940-1949
list1 = nowrap| "Strange Cargo" (1940) • nowrap| "Susan and God" (1940) • nowrap| "A Woman's Face" (1941) • nowrap| "When Ladies Meet" (1941) • nowrap| "They All Kissed the Bride" (1942) • nowrap| "Reunion in France" (1942) • nowrap| "Above Suspicion" (1943) • nowrap| "Hollywood Canteen" (1944) • nowrap| "Mildred Pierce" (1945) • nowrap| "Humoresque" (1946) • nowrap| "Possessed" (1947) • nowrap| "Daisy Kenyon" (1947) • nowrap| "Flamingo Road" (1949) • nowrap| "It's a Great Feeling" (1949)
name = Joan Crawford
title = The 1940-1970 Films of Miss Joan Crawford
group2 = 1950-1959
list2 = nowrap| "The Damned Don't Cry!" (1950) • nowrap| "Harriet Craig" (1950) • nowrap| "Goodbye, My Fancy" (1951) • nowrap| "This Woman is Dangerous" (1952) • nowrap| "Sudden Fear" (1952) • nowrap| "Torch Song" (1953) • nowrap| "Johnny Guitar" (1954) • nowrap| "Female on the Beach" (1955) • nowrap| "Queen Bee" (1955) • nowrap| "Autumn Leaves" (1956) • nowrap| "The Story of Esther Costello" (1957) • nowrap| "The Best of Everything" (1959)
name = Joan Crawford
title = The 1940-1970 Films of Miss Joan Crawford
group3 = 1960-1969
list3 = nowrap| "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962) • nowrap| "The Caretakers" (1963) • nowrap| "Strait-Jacket" (1964) • nowrap| "I Saw What You Did" (1965) • nowrap| "Berserk!" (1967)
group4 = 1970
list4 = nowrap| "Trog" (1970)