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Forever Darling |  | Director: Alexander Hall
Actors: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, James Mason, Louis Calhern, John Emery
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 22030
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 67974
UPC: 012569679740
EAN: 0012569679740
ASIN: B000EHQTZY
Theatrical Release Date: February 9, 1956
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | A lot of things can test a marriage, but Lorenzo and Susan Vega have unwittingly put their five-year union to the ultimate test: they go camping. And Susan's guardian angel, seen only by Susan, joins them.TV's I Love Lucy was in its fifth season when this romp gave fans more reasons to love its stars. Desi Arnaz plays Lorenzo, who heads for wide-open spaces to test his chemical company's new produ |
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The hardworking Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball star in the urbane and witty Forever Darling, a 1956 romantic comedy, made at the height of the couple's popularity as co-stars of I Love Lucy, about the difficulty of forging marital harmony. Arnaz plays unpretentious, visionary chemist Lorenzo "Larry" Vega, whose passion for working on a powerful chemical insecticide for the benefit of humankind means little to his wife, Susan (Ball). A creature of high society, Susan is conflicted about her destiny. Should she be concerned with acquiring a bigger house and socializing with the right people, or should she follow Larry as he takes his insecticide on a two-year field study in tropical jungles? Attempting to guide her toward the right decision is a dapper, guardian angel, who happens to take the form of James Mason because Mason is Susan's fantasy man. The script by Helen Deutsch (I'll Cry Tomorrow) indulges I Love Lucy fans with plenty of slapstick set pieces plugged into an extended camping scene. But there's also some flashy banter--Arnaz is very convincing putting well-heeled snobs in their place--and a very clever sequence in which Susan imagines herself as the heroine in a movie she happens to be watching. (A movie starring, yes, James Mason.) There's a fun, special feature in which Arnaz and Ball take time out from production on their television show to plug Forever Darling and reveal the secret of a truly happy marriage--and then get into a beef. --Tom Keogh
Product Description
A lot of things can test a marriage but Lorenzo and Susan Vega have unwittingly put their five-year union to the ultimate test: they go camping. And Susan's guardian angel seen only by Susan joins them. TV's I Love Lucy was in its fifth season when this romp gave fans more reasons to love its stars. Desi Arnaz plays Lorenzo who heads for wide-open spaces to test his chemical company's new product. Wife Susan (Lucille Ball) goes too. And soon we're all headed for comedy chaos built on tent-raising forest critters inflatable rafts and other typical elements of roughing it. There's one atypical element: the angel (James Mason) who wants to rescue their troubled union. Marriages may be made in heaven. But the details are worked out here belowRunning Time: 91 min.System Requirements:Run Time: 91 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 012569679740 Manufacturer No: 67974
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 Classic Lucy October 28, 2009
Donna (Oregon)
THis movie is classic Lucielle Ball. It was a must have for me and should be for any Lucy fan.
Forever Darling July 11, 2009
David A. Horner (Ca)
I bought this movie for a friend. Its a real nice classic to add to anyones dvd collection. :)
 Surprisingly unfunny October 4, 2008
Kona (Emerald City)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Susan and Larry Vega (Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz) have been married for seven years and are beginning to go their separate ways. Scientist Larry has developed a new insecticide and wants go on a camping trip to Yosemite to test it on the local mosquitoes. Susan hates camping, but her guardian angel (who looks just like James Mason) convinces her to go along.
What a terrible movie. Coming only a year after the heartwarming and very funny The Long, Long Trailer, this movie suffers from a miserable script and even worse direction. While Desi plays an intelligent and admirable man, Lucy is a rich snob whose nagging and fault-finding are pathetic, not funny. The whole James Mason-Angel thing doesn't work at all. He doesn't have any purpose until the last minutes of the story and up until then he's kind of creepy. The story moves at a snail's pace and could have been done in thirty minutes - minus a lot of the mean-spirited marital bickering.
This is a surprisingly unpleasant movie from America's sweethearts, made just four years before their divorce.
Lucy movie December 2, 2007
M. Rincon
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was so glad when I got my movie in. I been looking for it for ever. I been enjoying it when I get to have my quiet time at home.
 Not bad for Lucille Ball..... May 7, 2007
musicgirl
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Pretty good movie, and funny, but not as funny as some movies (like, the Long, Long Trailer). I thought Lucy acted confused, and not at all like the comedienne we all know and love. However, this is good clean fun, and seeing Desi as a scientist was great fun. Very funny at the end too!
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