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Review by Josh Gillam ★★

An ensemble cast including Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Marilyn Monroe, Louis Calherne, Mitzi Gaynor and Eddie Bracken star in this anthology romantic comedy, following five married couples who discover that—owing to a clerical error years before—they were never legally married. 

This is told as a series of vignettes, each focusing on a different couple, but despite the talent involved it never properly takes off. There’s just too many different stories jostling for attention here: none get the breathing space to develop, and because they’re told one after the other we don’t ever really get much of chance to see the impact this situation has on these characters. 

It should have been a jumping-off point for some great conflict, but while…

Review by ayla ৎ ★★★

- 'ready, white fang?'

- 'ready, panther girl.'

didn't really care about the other stories apart from ginger rogers but oh.. who let her with that man

ginger with the cat in the beginning had my heart melting

mitzi gaynor's smile is so adorable she literally lights up a room, patsy and willie getting married over the phone literally had me crying

Review by Lebowskidoo 🇨🇦 🎬 🍿 ★★★★

A judge marries five couples, only to discover much later that none of them were legally married after all. Each couple gets their chance in the spotlight. Good fun.

Plenty of fun, with a cast of greats: Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Victor Moore, Eve Arden, David Wayne, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jane Darwell...heck, even Lee Marvin shows up at one point!

Review by Morgan ★★★

that one guy who handed his baby off to another man so his hands would be free to whistle at Marilyn Monroe…

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"She's gonna be one of the most famous women in the United States..."

Buddy, you have no idea

Review by Jake ★★★★ Liked

Holy shit, this movie is WILDLY subversive for 1952. The sanctity of marriage was one of the core tenets of not only the Hays code but American culture at large, and Edmund Goulding just bashes the institution in the face with this anthology film. We're Not Married covers five marriages that turn out illegitimate after a bumbling judge gums up the works. Not everything is as it seems in these faux-matrimonies; there's PR relationships, infidelity, gold diggers and children out of wedlock. All various reasons for a sudden annulment to provide well-timed comic relief! (Zsa Zsa Gabor keels over when she realizes she gets NOTHING from her divorce.) We're Not Married is an acerbic comedy of re-marriage that is so hilariously cynical, I bet it made Billy Wilder jealous.

Review by Cinema_Snobb ★★½

Five married couples discover, to their shock, that they're not really married! The justice of the peace who presided over their nuptials didn't have a valid license.

When they learn the news two and a half years later, each couple must decide if they will remarry. Radio hosts Steve (Fred Allen) and Ramona (Ginger Rogers) couldn't harbor more animosity toward each other; but does that mean they should go their separate ways? Annabel, recently crowned Mrs. Mississippi, has more of a semantic problem.

It's episodic. I found that I wished more time was spent on each story. Ginger Rogers and Fred Allen had an interesting story. I wished I had seen more.

The same is true for the Zsa Zsa Gabor segment. She plays a golddigger who thinks she is still married to a wealthy businessman. That could have been an entire movie.

It's hit and miss which doesn't quite add up to enough.

Review by ༺ ⋅₊˚⋅ ୨ moon ୧ ‧˚₊⋅ ༻ ★★ Liked

just watching for marilyn, but I had a good time <3

Review by hustlerss ★★½

good ole 1950s hijinks

Review by Lencho of the Apes ★★½

It's not particularly heavy-handed, but it is all about reestablishing heteronormativity in moments when patriarchy-power seems to be faltering.

Review by RyanChag ★★

Weirdly modern in the way it uses its hacky skits to attract big stars for only fifteen minutes of screen time before moving on to the next pair. Ginger’s is the overall best, but Marilyn’s has the best laugh.

Review by Robert Hayes ★★★

Mr. & Mrs. Smith dealt with this scenario much better. There are several funny moments, but they never add up to anything that funny. Having five different couples in an 86-minute movie means that nobody really gets any development, making it feel more like a series of vignettes than a cohesive story, and one that wraps up a little too nicely, even for this kind of comedy. And then there's the cultural void opened by the Sexual Revolution which nullifies a lot of reasons for this being funny in the first place, and the urgency of the final "vignette." In summary, this was enjoyable in fits and starts. Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe were fine, but the narrative structure didn't do anyone any favors.