Tom, Dick and Harry

Rediscover this still-fresh satire on Cinderella-ism and the American get-ahead fetish. GingerRogers plays a small-town telephone operator exploring the marriage options.She's interested in the process of romance, the demographics of love, and putsthree suitors-a plodding car salesman, a confirmed anarchist, and aglobe-trotting millionaire-to the test. You'll be interested to see who, orrather what, wins. Three surrealistic dream sequences, one for each fellow,depict a woman's limited options in hilarious relief; the comedy isself-reflexive about movies and life in a playfully unforgiving way that looksforward to Frank Tashlin's films with Jayne Mansfield in the fifties.Screenwriter Paul Jarrico later judged Tom, Dick and Harry "tooromanticized," perhaps because it does retain a bit of happy dust. But thepumpkin cometh.

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