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I Married an Angel

film by Van Dyke [1942]

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In Anita Loos
…Clare Boothe Luce’s play), and I Married an Angel (1942). Her dramatization of Colette’s Gigi was produced in 1951, and she subsequently produced a number of other adaptations from French sources. She wrote Twice Over Lightly: New York Then and Now (1972), in collaboration with Helen Hayes. A Girl Like…
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In W.S. Van Dyke: Later films
I Married an Angel (1942) was the last of the Eddy-MacDonald musicals, a slight bit of whimsy about a playboy who dreams that he has fallen in love with an angel; even the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart tunes could not rescue the film. MacDonald…
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