I don't recall Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones had much in the way of chemistry in Farewell to Arms.

Gotta admit, I almost fell off the couch when she suggested he go into town and find "a gay young playmate."

I'm thinking of a movie....

I thought Jennifer Jones but I can't find it on her iMDB so I'm thinking no. It's about a man who was wounded in the war and a disfigured woman. THey both end up in this cottage in the middle of the woods somewhere, both ashamed of their appearance to go into public. THey fall in love eventually and their disfigurements go away. Or so they think. It's really the eyes of love making them beautiful to each other. The rest of the world still sees the disfigurements. Called The Magic Cottage or something cheesy like that.

The Enchanted Cottage. Robert Young and, um. I forget. LOVE that movie.

ETA: Dorothy McGuire was the female lead.

Aimée, you're thinking of The Enchanted Cottage, with Dorothy Maguire and Robert Young. It's kind of gooey in its sentimentality, but I still like the film.

Difficult to buy Maguire as homey though, even in ill-fitting clothes.

There we go.

Thanks, babe. Knew I could count on the hivey-est mind EVAH!

I love that movie too.

Now, Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peck in Duel in the Sun ... *that* was chemistry.

Whoa nelly. You aren't kidding. It was electric, even in the bad ways (and even in the stereotypical ways, although he always seemed to be the aggressor). Also, another "Joseph Cotten holds down the fort and gets to watch quietly while someone else chews the scenery" movie.

I find it hilarious that that movie is the one Martin Scorsese mentions as the first movie he remembers ever seeing (at age 4 or something).

Also, another "Joseph Cotten holds down the fort and gets to watch quietly while someone else chews the scenery" movie.

Which is ironic since that's the kind of role Peck usually plays. Although, for sheer whacko casting against type, nothing beats Peck as Dr. Mengele in BOYS FROM BRAZIL

Peck was lousy casting in Boys from Brazil. And I thought the whole movie was stupid. Bad script, worse casting, just a train wreck through and through.

I find it hilarious that that movie is the one Martin Scorsese mentions as the first movie he remembers ever seeing (at age 4 or something).

Hee. Had I seen the movie when I was 4, I'd have remembered it as well. All that smouldering sexuality and violence. Yowza.

Cotten went against type and played a serial killer in Shadow of a Doubt and he was friggin' excellent in it. Made me wish he had the chance to play more villains. Granted, the movie works because Cotten's outward manners are so deceptively gentle, in keeping with his usual onscreen image.

Talking of Cotten and Jones, I am ridiculously fond of A Portrait of Jennie, which is deeply silly when you think too hard about it, but never fails to reel me in on the atmosphere alone. All that florid lyricism and gorgeous Debussy and the time travel and oh my!

Chemistry? John Garfield and Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice. I thought the screen would spontaneously combust.