Der Gauner und die Lady (1951)
55KDer Gauner und die Lady: Directed by Edwin H. Knopf. With Greer Garson, Michael Wilding, Fernando Lamas, Marjorie Main. A beguiling international jewel thief loses her heart.
“This poor knock-off, starring a past-her-prime Greer Garson looks like what it is: a conflation of all the MGM contract players squeezed into roles they werenu0026#39;t necessarily congruent with. Garson, unfortunately, for the time, was not well accepted in coquettish female roles because of her age. Her heyday came and went with the stirring Mrs. Miniver when she was head of a family. Now, she needed a family to mother and MGM has thrown her out to be a jewel thief.nMGM, in fact, did her much injustice during the 1950s as they miscast her over and over again in search for that second Mrs. Miniver, which was never to come.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOther actors, like Myrna Loy, got out of their contracts with the studio and negotiated independently for roles. Loy smartly chose motherly roles as she grew older and did not try to hold on to her youth: u0026quot;The Best Years of Our Livesu0026quot;, u0026quot;Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream Houseu0026quot;, the sixth and final u0026quot;Thin Manu0026quot; and u0026quot;Cheaper by the Dozenu0026quot; (a big box office hit in 1950 that is not owned by TCM and is subsequently never aired).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGarson remained with MGM and they kept the movies coming. Someone in management must have really liked her.”
