{"id":6001,"date":"2008-11-14T15:22:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T22:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=6001"},"modified":"2022-01-14T10:32:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:32:50","slug":"wait-till-the-sun-shines-nellie-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=6001","title":{"rendered":"Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;To a pretty woman like you, Sevillinois must become pretty dull.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Poster-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Poster-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Poster-86x128.jpg 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Poster.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA city-loving bride (Jean Peters) is distressed when her husband (David Wayne) opens a barber shop in a small town, rather than taking her to Chicago as promised.\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>Flashback Films<\/li>\n<li>Historical Drama<\/li>\n<li>Hugh Marlowe Films<\/li>\n<li>Jean Peters Films<\/li>\n<li>Small Town America<\/li>\n<li>Widows and Widowers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nAlthough he notoriously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1952\/06\/28\/archives\/jean-peters-and-david-wayne-seen-in-wait-till-the-sun-shines-nellie.html\">missed the boat<\/a> in a number of his key reviews for the <em>New York Times<\/em> during his tenure as one of America&#8217;s most influential critics, Bosley Crowther was spot-on in his assessment of this &#8220;stagey&#8221; melodrama, which he accurately refers to as a &#8220;mawkishly sentimental tribute to the old-fashioned barber shop and to the dubious felicities of living in an American small town.&#8221; Indeed, director Henry King spares no effort &#8212; or cliches &#8212; in his attempt to convince us that small town life at the turn of the century (in contrast to the Big, Bad City) was the epitome of good living: the moment Wayne takes his bride &#8216;Nellie&#8217; over the threshold of his newly acquired barber shop in [fictional] Sevillinois, Illinois: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Peters-Wayne.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Peters-Wayne-1024x572.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-63939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Peters-Wayne-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Peters-Wayne-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Peters-Wayne-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Peters-Wayne-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Peters-Wayne-1536x858.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Peters-Wayne-483x270.png 483w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Peters-Wayne.png 1813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>a quartet of willing customers arrives in perfect harmony, ready to sing &#8212; you guessed it &#8212; barbershop tunes (including the title song). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Barbershop.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Barbershop-1024x577.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-63941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Barbershop-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Barbershop-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Barbershop-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Barbershop-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Barbershop-1536x866.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Barbershop-479x270.png 479w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/Wait-Till-the-Sun-Shines-Nellie-Barbershop.png 1797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, much less effort is spent on character development; as a result, we&#8217;re asked to care about people we&#8217;ve barely been given a chance to get to know. <\/p>\n<p>Wayne (a notable character actor &#8212; you&#8217;ll recognize him&#8230; from <em>somewhere<\/em>&#8230;) doesn&#8217;t quite have the charisma to carry the leading role &#8212; and he&#8217;s not helped any by the script, which has him deceiving his wife (Peters, looking extremely fetching) from the very beginning of their marriage. <\/p>\n<p>Without advance warning, he takes her to a small town, rather than a big city for their honeymoon (as promised); he lies to her about having purchased (rather than leased) the barber shop; and he continually makes decisions about their future without consulting her. No wonder she&#8217;s royally teed off by the middle of the film, at which point she petulantly flees to Chicago (can you blame her?) and promptly gets herself killed. Unfortunately, once she&#8217;s absent from the film, we care even less about what happens next to our widowed protagonist &#8212; so you may be tempted (as I was) to tune out completely from this point on. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><br \/>\nCall me a curmudgeon, but not much. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo. Peary lists this one as a Sleeper in the back of his book, but it&#8217;s not really worth seeking out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0045307\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1952\/06\/28\/archives\/jean-peters-and-david-wayne-seen-in-wait-till-the-sun-shines-nellie.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To a pretty woman like you, Sevillinois must become pretty dull.&#8221; Synopsis: A city-loving bride (Jean Peters) is distressed when her husband (David Wayne) opens a barber shop in a small town, rather than taking her to Chicago as promised. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Flashback Films Historical Drama Hugh Marlowe Films Jean Peters Films Small Town America Widows and Widowers Review: Although he notoriously missed the boat in a number of his key reviews for the New York Times&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=6001\"> 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-6001","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\/6001","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=6001"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80348,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions\/80348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}