Academy Awards, USA 1954
| Nominated Oscar | Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Helen Rose Herschel McCoy |
MGM
Directed by Sidney Sheldon
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
International businessman Cary Grant falls in love with a Middle Eastern princess but does not act on it because he is engaged back home to liberated modern woman Deborah Kerr. When her career gets in the way of their relationship, he calls up the princess and they are soon engaged instead. The jilted Kerr becomes their translator and an adviser to Grant on the customs of the foreign country, as well as to the princess on ours. The princess is soon transformed into a modern liberated woman and Kerr reverts to the subservient ways of her country to win back Grant. A glimpse into the sexist views of the male American circa 1953, sure to offend everyone today. Writer and director Sidney Sheldon may have reworked this into I Dream of Jeannie for TV just over 10 years later.
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