June 12th: Invitation

Now, in today's T.V. and movies and books, Women fighting over men makes a 'great' story. Women are devious, everyone knows, but it's no new fact that they go crazy for a man and won't stop at anything. Apparently the same was true in the 1950's where our film takes place.

Invitation came out in 1952 starring a Dorothy McGuire as Ellen, a sick housewife who's just so happy to have her perfect husband. The man who plays her husband we know from The Last Time I Saw Paris, A Mr. Van Johnson. He's Dan, Ellen's perfect husband who does everything he can for her in her frail state.

Well, Ellen goes out to visit her rich father one day, she also stop by an old friend, Maud. Well, we find out in a flashback that the two were once great friends, and that Maud had her eyes on Dan, who randomly married Ellen and made her so happy. Well, now Ellen knows that Maud is still after Dan, ad that she's more ready than ever to start up the fighting again. But wait! Dan gets an invitation to some super private medical shindig that Maud just so happens to also be going to? (And I though I was a manipulative..... witch).

While looking into everything to protect her man, she actually finds out that the only reason Dan married her is because her rich daddy bought him for her because she's going to die in a few months. The rest of the movie is all the drama in figuring this out, but with an actually happy ending.

YouTubes got nothing, but the movie is on TCM every now and then guys. Its only like, 2 hours long and a quick paced drama. Kids would get bored, but if your into any mild soap on ABC Family You'll get a kick out of this one



The Flick Chick, Signing off