mark.waltz An incredibly likable cast fails to rise above what is known as one of the worst screwball comedy's ever. It's nor a fault of the stars, pretty much the fault of the writer, producer, director and home office for demanding the participation of veteran Lew Ayres, new top star Robert Taylor, and in her second film, British newcomer Greer Garson. Professionals all, they do their best to hide any disgust they might have felt after understanding the hopeless script, the absurd story and the risk of being labeled box office poison in a year that this list was published. Old pals Taylor and Ayres find themselves at odds over the pretty Greer Garson, ironically engaged to Ayres. Involvement in a fox hunt has Garson and Taylor eloping, Ayres being graceful over it, and Taylor instantly disagreeable over his dislike of her entire family. That includes stuffy Reginald Owen, dizzy mother Billie Burke and flibbertigibbet aunt Laura Hope Crews. Taylor and Garson file for a quickly divorce, but numskull Ayres decides to reconcile them with a ridiculous drug that brings on amnesia.Perhaps the female audiences bought this kind of nonsense in 1939, but the critics rightfully panned it. Audiences stayed away, the three stars managed to recover, and the film got tossed aside from memory. But the late show, home video and TCM have brought it out of the dustbin. A few funny moments here and there add only a few laughs, but mostly it's full of groans. The MGM gloss can't make up for how bad this is, although a supporting cast (also including Sara Haden as Taylor's secretary and Henry Travers) add what little class there is. Do we remember? Unfortunately yes! The whole thing begins to repeat itself towards the end, leading to an outlandish conclusion.

BetsyBooth My goodness, what is all the fuss about?! Remember? was absolutely great. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. There are hilarious scenes and not just at the beginning of the picture like other reviewers have stated. When everyone around Taylor and Garson knows they are married except Taylor and Garson themselves, you can be sure riotous situations will ensue. The cast is just perfect, although Lew Ayres never really appealed to me. Garson absolutely sparkles and Robert Taylor was never more handsome. Although the ending is rather surprising, you will not be sorry with this gem of a comedy.

sol **SPOILERS*** Overstuffed, with hot air, Hollywood turkey of a screwball comedy that came out just in time for the 1939 Christmas Holiday season that almost destroyed the careers of the three major stars in it.It's when Sky Ames played by Lew Ayres, who looks like a preincrnated looking Jack Lemmon, came back north early from his vacation from Nassau in the Bahamas with his bride to be Linda Bronson, Greer Garson, that things started to go drastically south for him. It was Sky's friend and partner in the advertising firm that he works for tall dark & handsome Jeff "Rainbow Eyes" Holland, Robert Taylor, who after laying his "rainbow eyes" on his fiancées Linda that he completely lost it.Having no consideration at all for his best friend and business partner Sky "Rainbow Eyes" Jeff set his sights on Linda and forgot that she was engaged to Sky as well as him having a business to run. At first a bit puzzled by Jeff's strange, to put it mildly, behavior Linda did't take long to dump her future husband Sky without as much as a second thought. Even though Jeff was anything but dependable in being on time for anything even his wedding and honeymoon with Linda. Jeff also proves to be an off the wall oddball with Linda's parents her dizzy mom Mrs. Louise Bronson, Billie Burke, and horse loving dad Mr. George Bronson, Reginald Owen, who despite his childish antics agree to let him have Linda's hand in marriage.Meanwhile back at the office Sky feeling that he's being treated like a first class schmuck by both Jeff and Linda comes up with an idea from one of the clients he's dealing with at the firm Dr. Schmidt, Sig Ruman. It's Dr. Schmidt who developed this magic potion that can make people forget their past going back as far as six months in time that Sky plans to get the couple to gulp down. With Jeff & Linda now married Sky plans to slip the forgot potion into their drinks and with their past, in meeting falling in love and getting married, obliterated he now can get a fresh start in life as well as with Linda.***SPOILERS*** Like everything else that happened to him in the movie Sky's brilliant idea turns out to be a total deserter for him. Not only in him getting both Linda and Jeff back together again, even though they forgot about each other, but having Linda now expecting with, in both her and Jeff forgetting about their past, what could only be Sky's child! With thoughts now failing him and knowing that he screwed himself up for the second time around in trying to get Linda back Sky does about the only thing left for him to do in correcting the mess that he got himself into. Gulp down the forget potion and blot this entire episode, or movie, completely out of his mind!

blanche-2 I gave "Remember?" a 6 because of the cast ONLY. I knew there had to be a disaster made during the "magic" year of 1939, and sure enough, this is it. Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, and Lew Ayres star in what surely is the foreshadowing of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" except that this is one case where a later film is better than one from the classic era.The film concerns a man, Jeff Holland (Taylor) who falls in love with his friend Sky's (Lew Ayres) fiancé Linda (Garson) and abruptly marries her. However, he's a workaholic. This makes her very unhappy, and the two divorce. Desirous of getting them back together, Sky uses an experimental drug, that sounded like mematine. It erases everything that happened in the last six months. Interesting, because today there is a drug called memantine for Alzheimer's, so it actually has an opposite effect."Remember?" is only mildly funny. It lacks the pace of a comedy - it's one of those in between things where the story isn't compelling enough to be a drama but doesn't come off like a comedy either. The main part of the plot comes practically at the end of the film. One scene I did love - Billie Burke, as Garson's mother, has a surprise congratulatory party for the new couple. When they arrive, she has everybody hide behind furniture - which has become somewhat tedious, because the Hollands are late and the entire group has been hiding on and off for hours. When they arrive, Jeff and Linda are sent into the library, where Jeff complains to Linda about her father and her family's boring, blowhard friends. Then Billie Burke yells surprise. A very good scene, but there weren't enough of these in the movie to justify it.The performances are good. Taylor is unbelievably handsome and really did have a nice flair for comedy. Lew Ayres, in real life a pacifist, vegetarian, and a very spiritual man, somehow played drinking men very well, and does so in this. Garson was still very early in her career but had already received an Oscar nomination. Guess Mayer thought she was a flash in the pan - this is hardly a step in a prestige career. Garson probably hoped she never was nominated for an Oscar again - who knows what MGM would do to her next. Fortunately it didn't work out that way."Remember?" is one of those films you'll more than likely want to forget.