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      Susan and God

      Released Jun 7, 1940 1 hr. 55 min. Comedy Drama List
      40% 5 Reviews Tomatometer 26% 250+ Ratings Audience Score Susan Trexel (Joan Crawford) returns home from Europe, bursting to share her spiritual transformation with her friends. Although Susan's estranged husband, Barrie (Fredric March) pleads for a reunion, Susan goes to stay with a friend and, acting upon her certainty that everyone can benefit from the truth, begins meddling in the lives of her friend's family. Barrie convinces Susan to act on her own beliefs and give him and their daughter, Blossom, another chance, but Susan remains smugly aloof. Read More Read Less

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      Steve D Crawford is great and the story interesting. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/13/24 Full Review ashley h Susan and God is a disappointing film. It is about a a wealthy socialite who undergoes a religious transformation. Joan Crawford and Fredric March give terrible performances. The screenplay is badly written. George Cukor did a horrible job directing this movie. I was not impressed with this motion picture. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Probably the most irritating character Crawford ever played as a deluded socialite who feels she's found god and foists it on those around here to their detriment. Of course her family suffers. Interesting as an artifact. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member We all like to have some place to go... Susan Trexel is a wealthy house wife that lives the high life. She takes exotic trips around the world and comes back from one of these trips super religious. She believes god wants her divorced and to head down a new path. Her husband thinks she's crazy and the divorce tears him apart. Will Susan find her calling? "I forgive you darling and I know you forgive me." George Cukor, director of My Fair Lady, The Philadelphia Story, Adam's Ribs, A Star is Born, Wild is the Wind, Rich and Famous, and Born Yesterday, delivers Susan and God. The storyline for this picture and the main character is fairly annoying. The acting is just okay and the cast includes Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Rita Hayworth, Nigel Bruce, Bruce Cabot, and Ruth Hussey. "Ask God to help you. He knows what your temptations was..." This was recently on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) for the Halloween season so I had to record it (I enjoy most Joan Crawford pictures). This was just okay and a bit annoying at times. I wouldn't go too out of my way to see this. "I hope you have the headache you deserve." Grade: C Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Rather silly Joan Crawford drama about Joan as a whose religious fanaticism alienates her family. Directed by George Cukor, this plot seemed rather silly, though it was apparently based upon a serious Broadway play. Fredric March and Rita Hayworth appear in supporting parts. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Odd film especially for a Crawford vehicle about a shallow socialite who takes up religion on a whim with an overly simplistic ending. Suffers from not having anyone to really root for outside the minor character of the main character's daughter Blossom. Both Joan and March's characters are selfish and for the most part thoughtless fools. This was the screen debut, in a wordless bit, of Susan Peters and Dan Dailey in a slightly larger part. Also keep a sharp eye out for Joan Leslie and Gloria De Haven in tiny parts just starting out. Someone who has a larger part and actually attracted quite a bit of notice in it moving her forward to larger parts than she had been cast previously is Rita Hayworth. She's ravishing although not quite fully arrived at her star persona just yet. Still a brunette she handles her small supporting role well injecting a touch of pathos into a sketchily drawn part. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Critics Reviews

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      Variety Staff Variety Smartly cast, deftly directed and elaborately mounted. Mar 26, 2009 Full Review Bosley Crowther New York Times March is strangely listless in an aggravating role. Ruth Hussey and Marjorie Main stand out in a competent cast which mostly plays at being Long Island hedonists. Perhaps they even do too good a job in setting a vapid and inconsequential tone. Jan 28, 2006 Full Review George Orwell Time and Tide This film, amusing in parts, is a not too happy mixture of satire and sentiment. Oct 2, 2023 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com One of George Cukor's worst films due to lack of sympathetic charcater, made worse by Joan Crawford's lackluster performance; MGM queen Norma Shearer turned down the role because she didn't want to play a mature woman with children! Rated: C- Feb 9, 2007 Full Review TV Guide Staff TV Guide Anita Loos' adaptation of the successful drama by Rachel Crothers was actually better than the play's script. Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Susan Trexel (Joan Crawford) returns home from Europe, bursting to share her spiritual transformation with her friends. Although Susan's estranged husband, Barrie (Fredric March) pleads for a reunion, Susan goes to stay with a friend and, acting upon her certainty that everyone can benefit from the truth, begins meddling in the lives of her friend's family. Barrie convinces Susan to act on her own beliefs and give him and their daughter, Blossom, another chance, but Susan remains smugly aloof.
      Director
      George Cukor
      Screenwriter
      Rachel Crothers, Anita Loos
      Distributor
      Loew's Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
      Production Co
      Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Loew's Inc.
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jun 7, 1940, Wide
      Release Date (DVD)
      Apr 6, 2010
      Sound Mix
      Mono