I Love You Again (1940)

While alone on a cruise, upstanding, teetotal - and mean - Larry Wilson receives a blow on the head, causing him to revert to his old, forgotten, persona of man-about-town and swindler George Carey. Deciding to get what he can out of his position as Wilson he returns to his hometown to continue the pretence. The only trouble is he takes a serious shine to his wife Kay, and doesn't at all agree that Larry should be letting her go.

William Powell ... Lawrence 'Larry' Wilson, aka George Carey
Myrna Loy ... Katherine 'Kay' Wilson
Frank McHugh ... 'Doc' Ryan
Edmund Lowe ... Duke Sheldon
Donald Douglas ... Herbert
Nella Walker ... Kay's mother
Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer ... Leonard Harkspur Jr.
Pierre Watkin ... Mr. W.H. Sims
Paul Stanton ... Mr. Edward Littlejohn Sr.
Morgan Wallace ... Mr. Phil Belenson
Charles Arnt ... Mr. Billings

Director: W.S. Van Dyke

Runtime: 99 mins

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I Love You Again (1940)

While alone on a cruise, upstanding, teetotal - and mean - Larry Wilson receives a blow on the head, causing him to revert to his old, forgotten, persona of man-about-town and swindler George Carey. Deciding to get what he can out of his position as Wilson he returns to his hometown to continue the pretence. The only trouble is he takes a serious shine to his wife Kay, and doesn't at all agree that Larry should be letting her go.

William Powell ... Lawrence 'Larry' Wilson, aka George Carey
Myrna Loy ... Katherine 'Kay' Wilson
Frank McHugh ... 'Doc' Ryan
Edmund Lowe ... Duke Sheldon
Donald Douglas ... Herbert
Nella Walker ... Kay's mother
Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer ... Leonard Harkspur Jr.
Pierre Watkin ... Mr. W.H. Sims
Paul Stanton ... Mr. Edward Littlejohn Sr.
Morgan Wallace ... Mr. Phil Belenson
Charles Arnt ... Mr. Billings

Director: W.S. Van Dyke

Runtime: 99 mins

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032617/

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Seems to me that in the course of his career, WILLIAM POWELL has been in many a movie as an amnesia victim--but here, it's strictly for laughs. He and Myrna Loy (at her most attractive) are paired again as a romantic couple with their usual share of misunderstandings and shenanigans. It has the flavor of a Nick and Nora flick--without Astor.

The story is a series of misunderstandings and comic situations all set up by the fact that Powell is struggling to remember who he was--and meanwhile rediscovers his wife and loves her very much even though she is threatening to leave him. None of it makes much sense and all of it is played strictly for laughs and romantic charm.

Working with very thin material, Loy and Powell do it again. Proof that their box-office chemistry was no fluke. If you enjoy this one, try LOVE CRAZY with an even crazier approach to the amnesia angle and even more amusing.

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When the movie going public demands you back 14 times you know that something is being done right by both the studio and the players involved.

William Powell and Myrna Loy hit a real career high point in this film with a rather original plot gimmick. The amnesia gimmick is stood on its head in this film.

Powell and Loy are married and he's on a business trip involving an ocean voyage. Powell is something of a stuffed shirt when we meet him on the ship. When a drunken Frank McHugh falls overboard, Powell dives in to rescue him and in the process gets himself knocked out.

When he comes to, like in Random Harvest, he discovers his former identity which is that of a confidence man and as it turns out McHugh also is a full time grifter.

Unlike Ronald Colman who spent the whole of Random Harvest searching for his lost years, Powell has his identity there. Returning to his town with his new found friend McHugh, he finds wife Loy together with the fact he's a person of some means. But he also finds out that Loy was planning to get rid of him.

Powell together with McHugh and former associate Edmund Lowe try to work an elaborate con game on the town. At the same time Powell is falling for the woman he married and embarks on a campaign to win her back. Those two agenda items come into conflict.

Bill and Myrna are at their best in I Love You Again. Two highlight scenes for me are Powell's cooing courtship of Loy and his trip through the woods in his Boy Ranger uniform with his Boy Ranger troop. This must have been the same outfit that Jimmy Stewart was trying to get a summer camp for in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The goings on are similar to what Powell went through fishing in Libeled Lady.

I Love You Again is movie comedy at its very best.

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What's it about Powell and Loy that's makes for so perfect a screen match?

For one thing, they look like they're having such a good time, playing off one another's deft personality quirks.

What one leaves unsaid, the other speaks up and answers. When one "teeters," the other "totters." It's like watching a subtle game of chess with upbeat tempo.

As Nora and Nick Charles in "The Thin Man" series, they were unsurpassed; yet equally as good in other films, like "I Love You Again."

In this clever little comedy, Powell's given most of the pratfalls, while Loy's more the "straight," which she handles with her usual charm and skill.

About the only weak thing here may be its all-too-generic, forgettable title. Otherwise, it's a film full of laughs, and another bull's eye for one of the screen's all-time "duo champs."

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I wonder if this might be the great granddaddy of all amnesia films. If it's not, it's sure one of the first and has inspired countless sitcom episodes. William Powell is bonked on the head and suddenly he's a completely different person--one who apparently disappeared nine years earlier. Who he was during the last nine years is uncertain, but what IS certain is that the new personality is a crook. When this shady guy figures out that during the last nine years he's become a pillar of the community and has access to gobs of other peoples' money, he wants to steal everything he can and run. The problem is, he discovers he has a wife (Loy) and can't bring himself to leave--even when he finds out she hates him. Well, much of the movie is spent trying to win her back, though he still wonders whether or not to rob his "friends". What he does and how the entire mess is resolved is brilliant and a lot of fun. This isn't wacky fun like his other film, LOVE CRAZY, but is a little more sophisticated and deliberately paced. A wonderful old film with excellent acting, writing (aside from the dumb plot device) and direction. One of Powell's and Loy's best.