Title: Idiot's Delight

Date: 1939
Type: Drama
Rating:

3/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: Clarence Brown
Producer: Clarence Brown

Comment
After World War 1 an entertainer (Clark Gable) ends up being an assistant in a mind reading act and has a brief liaison with an acrobat (Norma Shearer). At the start of World War 2 he is running a female song and dance group and whilst in Europe they are held up in a boarder hotel as war is declared with a mixed group of people and a Russian woman remarkably like the acrobat. This is a curious mix of song/dance, romance and political comment. Clark Gable sings and dances (including a version of Putting On The Ritz) while Norma Shearer puts on a blonde wig and her performance and accent clearly sends up Greta Garbo. The script drags in places and it does show it origins as a play.
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