{"id":44278,"date":"2019-07-31T09:18:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T16:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=44278"},"modified":"2020-12-16T01:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T08:02:19","slug":"it-happens-every-spring-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=44278","title":{"rendered":"It Happens Every Spring (1949)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;The more you talk, the more mysterious it gets!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/It-Happens-Every-Spring-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/It-Happens-Every-Spring-Poster-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/It-Happens-Every-Spring-Poster-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/It-Happens-Every-Spring-Poster-86x128.jpg 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/It-Happens-Every-Spring-Poster.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen a chemistry professor (Ray Milland) accidentally discovers a serum that repels wooden bats from hitting baseballs, he realizes he has a surefire money-making idea which would allow him to finally marry his fiancee (Jean Peters) &#8212; so he goes undercover as a major league pitcher.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baseball<\/li>\n<li>Jean Peters Films<\/li>\n<li>Mistaken or Hidden Identities<\/li>\n<li>Paul Douglas Films<\/li>\n<li>Ray Milland Films<\/li>\n<li>Scientists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valentine_Davies\">Valentine Davies<\/a> &#8212; author of <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=15317\"><em>Miracle on 34th Street<\/em> (1947)<\/a> &#8212; wrote the screenplay for this utterly innocuous fantasy flick, which predates <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=17916\"><em>The Nutty Professor<\/em> (1963)<\/a> (also about a professor discovering a life-altering serum) by 14 years. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s very little to recommend about <em>It Happens Every Spring<\/em> unless you&#8217;re a baseball fan who takes great delight in seeing creatively rigged games. There is exactly one joke here (that darn baseball keeps swerving away from the bat!) extended a bit to include a running gag about clueless joes who use the serum as a hair tonic (and thus can&#8217;t put a wooden-handled brush to their head), but the entire scenario could easily have been distilled into a half-hour sitcom episode. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Douglas as Monk Lanigan<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/It-Happens-Every-Spring-Douglas.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/It-Happens-Every-Spring-Douglas.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/It-Happens-Every-Spring-Douglas.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/It-Happens-Every-Spring-Douglas-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/It-Happens-Every-Spring-Douglas-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; feel free to skip this one. Listed as a Personal Recommendation in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0041514\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/sciencefiction\/it-happens-every-spring-1949.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/79519\/it-happens-every-spring#articles-reviews?articleId=215690\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticmoviemusings.com\/2016\/08\/14\/it-happens-every-spring-1949\/\">Fantastic Movie Musings Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1949\/06\/11\/archives\/review-1-no-title-it-happens-every-spring-with-ray-milland-paul.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The more you talk, the more mysterious it gets!&#8221; Synopsis: When a chemistry professor (Ray Milland) accidentally discovers a serum that repels wooden bats from hitting baseballs, he realizes he has a surefire money-making idea which would allow him to finally marry his fiancee (Jean Peters) &#8212; so he goes undercover as a major league pitcher. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Baseball Jean Peters Films Mistaken or Hidden Identities Paul Douglas Films Ray Milland Films Scientists Review: Valentine Davies &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=44278\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44278"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58156,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44278\/revisions\/58156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}