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No Time for Love

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Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert) is a successful, cultured photojournalist who takes an assignment photographing blue-collar diggers. She snaps a photo of a gruff worker named Jim Ryan (Fred MacMurray) while he is in a scuffle with another laborer. After the photo gets published, Jim is suspended for fighting on the job. Katherine feels guilty and hires Jim to assist her. Soon, against her better judgment, she falls for Jim -- but their differences may be impossible to overcome.

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Elena de la Torre Cine-Mundial 09/13/2019
Fun and original as few are. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 07/19/2012
C+
Watchable hokum. Go to Full Review
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Steve D 03/24/2024 Really fun with great leads working well off each other. See more 07/15/2012 there are some good laughs in "no time for love", but it's nothing special. See more 07/14/2012 another screwball comedy from this great team (the other is the 'egg and i') See more 09/04/2011 Agreeable little romantic comedy with Claudette and Fred well matched. The story is lightweight but Leisen was expert at making this kind of fluff enjoyable. June Havoc is sassy as a flashy showgirl. See more 10/15/2010 Very nice. Robust little rom-com that came as quite a surprise to me. Namely - it stars MacFred... and I liked it. Even stranger - I liked him in it. Very well cast. As is Colbert, but Best on Ground is Richard Haydn. I haven't seen (or heard) him in much, but he certainly owns [i]The Sound of Music[/i] and [i]Alice in Wonderland[/i], too. Look forward to seeing more of Leisen's stuff. I imagine I'll be getting around to [i]Midnight[/i] soon enough. See more 07/07/2010 2.5: Great meet cute and it only gets better from there, at least for the first act or so. The scenes of the tunnel construction were fascinating and a wonderful change from the standard screwball/romantic comedy setting. It didn't take a genius to realize the film would return to the tunnel set at some point later in the picture either; a set like that for this type of film needed to be on screen as much as possible in order to make it cost effective. The Irish tunnel construction worker and the famous photographer; great contrast, but it ends up coming up a bit short and conventional in the end. Colbert and MacMurray certainly have chemistry. Sparks literally seem to fly off the screen at some points towards the beginning. The dream sequence is wonderfully hypnotic and original as well. The film eventually lost interest for me though, but this may have been partially due to the fact that I watched it in three sittings over the course of about 10 days while travelling around Thailand. Still, a solidly entertaining example of its genre. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert) is a successful, cultured photojournalist who takes an assignment photographing blue-collar diggers. She snaps a photo of a gruff worker named Jim Ryan (Fred MacMurray) while he is in a scuffle with another laborer. After the photo gets published, Jim is suspended for fighting on the job. Katherine feels guilty and hires Jim to assist her. Soon, against her better judgment, she falls for Jim -- but their differences may be impossible to overcome.
Director
Mitch Leisen
Producer
Fred Kohlmar, Mitch Leisen
Screenwriter
Claude Binyon
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Paramount Pictures
Genre
Romance, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 10, 1943, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Apr 9, 2013
Runtime
1h 23m