You Belong to Me (1941 film)
Encyclopedia
You Belong to Me is a 1941
American
romantic comedy
directed by Wesley Ruggles, and starring Barbara Stanwyck
and Henry Fonda
. The film was released in the United Kingdom
as Good Morning, Doctor.
Helen recruits Billings (Edgar Buchanan
), Peter's groundskeeper, to try unsuccessfully to interest the idle Peter in gardening. After another, very embarrassing altercation with Vandermer, Peter gets a job as a tie salesman under the alias of "John Jenkins" to try to please his wife. Peter finds that he likes working and becomes ambitious. Helen is delighted and decides to retire and become a housewife. However, the other department store employees recognize him and resent him for taking a job away from somebody who actually needs it, resulting in his firing. Billings gives Peter an idea with the suggestion that he create jobs with his money. Peter decides to buy a nearly-bankrupt hospital, which will require most of his income to keep running, and make Helen the chief of staff.
1941 in film
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American
United States
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romantic comedy
Romantic Comedy
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directed by Wesley Ruggles, and starring Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra...
and Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...
. The film was released in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
as Good Morning, Doctor.
Plot
Doctor Helen Hunt (Barbara Stanwyck) meets millionaire playboy Peter Kirk (Henry Fonda) in an unusual way—he crashes practically at her feet at a ski resort. He insists that only she can treat his (minor) injuries and soon proposes marriage, which she accepts. On their wedding night, Helen is called away by a medical emergency. When she returns, Peter has fallen asleep. Peter becomes jealous and gets into confrontations with two of her patients, Robert Andrews (Gordon Jones) and Frederick Vandemer (Roger Clark). He is chagrined to learn that Vandemer had also staged a skiing accident to get to know Helen and that Vandemer asked her to marry him.Helen recruits Billings (Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s...
), Peter's groundskeeper, to try unsuccessfully to interest the idle Peter in gardening. After another, very embarrassing altercation with Vandermer, Peter gets a job as a tie salesman under the alias of "John Jenkins" to try to please his wife. Peter finds that he likes working and becomes ambitious. Helen is delighted and decides to retire and become a housewife. However, the other department store employees recognize him and resent him for taking a job away from somebody who actually needs it, resulting in his firing. Billings gives Peter an idea with the suggestion that he create jobs with his money. Peter decides to buy a nearly-bankrupt hospital, which will require most of his income to keep running, and make Helen the chief of staff.
Credits
- Barbara StanwyckBarbara StanwyckBarbara Stanwyck was an American actress. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra...
as Helen Hunt - Henry FondaHenry FondaHenry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...
as Peter Kirk - Edgar Buchanan as Billings
- Roger Clark as Frederick Vandemer
- Ruth Donnelly as Emma
- Melville Cooper as Moody
- Ralph Peters as Joseph
- Maude Eburne as Ella
- Renie Riano as Minnie
- Ellen Lowe as Eva
- Mary Treen as Doris
- Gordon Jones as Robert Andrews
- Fritz Feld as Hotel Clerk
- Paul Harvey as Barrows