No Time for Love (film)
Encyclopedia
No Time for Love is a 1943 film directed by Mitchell Leisen
, and starring Claudette Colbert
and Fred MacMurray
.
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White (Hans Dreier
, Robert Usher
, Sam Comer). Robert Usher spent the last twenty years of his life as a 'family brother' at New Clairvaux Abbey in Vina California. He designed some of the monastery's buildings and the cemetery gardens.
) and a female photographer Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert
), who gets him fired from a tunneling job. She feels responsible and hires him to help her. The differences in their styles help them to fall in love.
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Mitchell Leisen
Mitchell Leisen was an American director, art director, and costume designer.-Film career:He entered the film industry in the 1920s, beginning in the art and costume departments...
, and starring Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert was a French-born American-based actress of stage and film.Born in Paris, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures...
and Fred MacMurray
Fred MacMurray
Frederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s....
.
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White (Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....
, Robert Usher
Robert Usher
Robert Usher was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Usher was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...
, Sam Comer). Robert Usher spent the last twenty years of his life as a 'family brother' at New Clairvaux Abbey in Vina California. He designed some of the monastery's buildings and the cemetery gardens.
Plot
It tells the story of an engineer Jim Ryan (Fred MacMurrayFred MacMurray
Frederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s....
) and a female photographer Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert was a French-born American-based actress of stage and film.Born in Paris, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures...
), who gets him fired from a tunneling job. She feels responsible and hires him to help her. The differences in their styles help them to fall in love.
Cast
- Claudette ColbertClaudette ColbertClaudette Colbert was a French-born American-based actress of stage and film.Born in Paris, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures...
as Katherine Grant - Fred MacMurrayFred MacMurrayFrederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s....
as Jim Ryan - Ilka ChaseIlka ChaseIlka Chase was an American actress and novelist.Born in New York City and educated at convent and boarding schools in the United States, England, and France, she was the only child of Edna Woolman Chase, the editor in chief of Vogue magazine, and her first husband, Francis Dane Chase.Chase made...
as Hoppy Grant - Richard HaydnRichard HaydnRichard Haydn was an English comic actor in radio, films and television.-Early life and career:Born George Richard Haydon in London, he was known for playing eccentric characters, such as Edwin Carp, Claud Curdle, Richard Rancyd and Stanley Stayle. Much of his stage delivery was done in a...
as Roger Winant - Paul McGrathPaul McGrath (actor)Paul McGrath was an American film, television, Broadway, and Pittsburgh actor best known for his radio appearances in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in London, England.-See also:...
as Henry Fulton - June HavocJune HavocJune Havoc was a Canadian-born American actress, dancer, writer, and theater director. Havoc was a child Vaudeville performer under the tutelage of her mother. She later acted on Broadway and in Hollywood and stage directed . She last appeared on television in 1990 on General Hospital...
as Darlene - Marjorie GatesonMarjorie GatesonMarjorie Augusta Gateson , was a character actress in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s....
as Sophie
Quotes
- Katherine Grant: Oh, you---you coward! Kissing a woman!
- Jim Ryan: What am I supposed to kiss?
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- Darlene: Aw, gee, you're wonderful!
- Jim Ryan: Just keep that in mind.
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- Darlene: If I get mad, I'm liable to throw ya a dirty look. And where I look dirty, no grass grows. Ever.
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- Hoppy Grant: [answering the door] Doorbells should ring once and then electrocute the ringer.