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Honeymoon in Bali
a.k.a: My Love for Yours, Husbands or Lovers (UK), Are Husbands Necessary?
Paramount Pictures
Released: September 29, 1939
Runtime: 95 minutes
This was Allan’s first movie after leaving MGM; he receives third billing and picks up a mustache. He plays the nice guy who doesn’t get the girl, and squeezes in a little bit of singing.
Gail Allen is an independent, dedicated business woman who thinks she has no time for a husband. However, after meeting the charming Bill Burnett, she finds it difficult to fight the prospect of marriage. He lives in Bali, where the two have a grand time. A friend of his there had a baby girl, and is dying. Bill took responsibility of her, and now she is a talkative, outgoing toddler, who also steals Gael’s heart. Eric Sinclair is her long time friend who sings at the Metropolitan Opera House. He is a “fine gentleman,” very considerate and understanding. One evening at Gail’s house, he gives a brilliant performance of the aria, “O Paradis.” On the day of her birthday, a singing telegram boy wishes her a happy birthday. Eric brings him to the piano and they sing “Happy Birthday” again. He feels that it is fine for a man and a woman who are involved or married to live in separate apartments, out of working convenience. Towards the end, after Gail learns that Bill is getting married, she asks Eric if they can marry. Of course, Gail is really in love with Bill. They are about to stay engaged until Bill stops by Gail’s office. Eric finds out that he didn’t get married, so he sets Gail on the right course. He tells her to go with the man she loves and wishes her well with a bit of “Farewell To Thee (Aloha Oe).”
Credits
Director…Edward H. Griffith
Writers…Katherine Brush (story), F. Scott Fitzgerald (uncredited), Grace Startwell Mason (story), and Viginia Van Upp (screenplay)
Producer…Jeff Lazarus
Executive producer… William LeBaron
Cinematography…Ted Tetzlaff, Charles Edgar Schoenbaum (uncredited)
Film Editing…Eda Warren
Art Direction…Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte
Costumes…Edith Head
Sound Department/Recordists…Harry D. Mills, Richard Olson
Assistant Director…Roland Asher (uncredited)
Interior Decorator…A.E. Freudeman
Process Photographer…Farciot Edouart
Harry Perry…background photographer (uncredited)
Cast
Fred MacMurray…Bill “Willie” Burnett
Madeleine Carroll…Gail Allen
Allan Jones….Eric Sinclair
Akim Tomiroff…Tony, the Window Washer
Helen Broderick…Miss Lorna “Smitty” Smith
Osa Massen…Noel Van Ness
Carolyn Lee…Rose, Daughter of Bill’s dying Friend
Astrid Allwyn…Fortune Teller at Egret Room
Georgia Caine…Miss Stone, Gail’s secretary
Fritzi Brunette…Secretary
William B. Davidson…Store Detective
Benny Bartlett…Jack, the Singing Telegram Boy
Soundtrack
• “O Paradis” (French version of “O Paradiso”)
o Sung by Allan Jones, with piano accompaniment
o Written by Giacomo Meyerbeer (from the opera “L’ Africaine”)
• “Happy Birthday to You”
o Sung by Benny Bartlett and Sung/played on piano by Allan Jones
o Written by Mildred J. Hill and Patty S. Hill
• “Farewell To Thee (Aloha Oe)”
o Sung by Allan Jones a capella via intercom
o Written by Queen Liliuokalani