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Never Say Goodbye

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Young "Flip" Gayley (Patti Brady) thinks her parents will reunite if her father, Phil (Errol Flynn), believes her mother, Ellen (Eleanor Parker), has a romantic life. Ellen, however, isn't seeing anyone. Flip sends her soldier pen pal a photo of her mother, hoping he'll believe he's been corresponding with Ellen all along. Ellen and the soldier soon find themselves in the same restaurant as Phil. Instantly jealous, Phil schemes to replace the man he fears is about to steal Ellen's heart.
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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 01/05/2010
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A better Christmas film than many of the more well-known ones. Go to Full Review
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Byron P @RT25684801 04/13/2023 Great movie - I don't know why people haven't rated it higher. For me, it's a movie I could watch over and over again. Character development has very good interaction and the little girl is a big bonus for comedic moments. See more 12/18/2018 Rock Hudson plays a military doctor who falls in love with nightclub pianist, Cornell Borchers. They marry and have a baby and all seems right. That is, until Hudson's seething jealousy wrecks everything that they had established. Tragedy tears the couple apart and Hudson must raise their daughter alone. Years later, fate brings the couple back together and their daughter (played surprisingly well by a young Shelley Fabares)must come to grips with the mother she had never known. See more panayiota k @Penny672 03/29/2017 It was cute at first but then Phil was acting like a dick and there were too many misunderstandings in the story. See more 09/16/2015 Flynn seems out of place or miscast here See more 06/11/2013 Cute comedy with Errol having fun for a change and well paired with Eleanor Parker. See more 12/17/2012 Never Say Goodbye (1946) -- [6.5] -- Errol Flynn and Eleanor Parker star as the divorced parents of a seven-year-old girl who is trying to get the two back together again. It may sound like a cloying storyline, but the film uses it exclusively for screwball comedic effect. Memorable sequences include Flynn's attempt to have dinner with two women at two different tables at the same time, Christmas Eve with two sparring Santas, and the return of a soldier who thinks the little girl's romantic letters are from her mother. Lucile Watson is good as the snooty mother-in-law (and gets to cut loose in a scene involving alcohol), S.Z. Skall is affable as a friendly restaurant owner who helps both Flynn and his daughter in times of need, and Forrest Tucker is put to good use as the dim-witted soldier foil. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Young "Flip" Gayley (Patti Brady) thinks her parents will reunite if her father, Phil (Errol Flynn), believes her mother, Ellen (Eleanor Parker), has a romantic life. Ellen, however, isn't seeing anyone. Flip sends her soldier pen pal a photo of her mother, hoping he'll believe he's been corresponding with Ellen all along. Ellen and the soldier soon find themselves in the same restaurant as Phil. Instantly jealous, Phil schemes to replace the man he fears is about to steal Ellen's heart.
Director
James V. Kern
Producer
William Jacobs
Screenwriter
I.A.L. Diamond, James V. Kern
Distributor
Warner Bros.
Production Co
Warner Bros.
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 9, 1946, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 1, 2009
Runtime
1h 37m
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