![]() means that Kay must give up her plush Manhattan life and make do with Chris's cattle ranch. In a plot development that prefigures TV's Green Acres, being Mr. The two click - and, against a typical Hollywood montage, their oil-and-water culture clash leads to love and marriage. ![]() Played by a somewhat miscast Fred MacMurray, Chris is a plain-spoken widower who has the same ease with roping runaway cattle as Kay does with her music. Dunne's Kay Kingsley is an honored guest at a rodeo competition - an odd setting for a cultured, witty woman, yet she is immediately taken with one of the ropers in the ring. Never a Dull Moment! was based on a memoir by Kay Swift, a Broadway tunesmith who briefly gave up Manhattan's glitterati for life as a ranch wife after impulsively marrying a rodeo rider in 1939 (Swift wrote the songs which Dunne, as Swift's movie doppelgänger, sings in the movie). ![]() What's not to like? Eh, I'll explain later. Here, Dunne gets to flirt shamelessly, take pratfalls like a pro, act concerned, even warble a few songs in her pleasant soprano. Produced by RKO in 1950, the film is one of several obscure Dunne vehicles getting released on made-to-order DVD from the folks at Warner Archives. Her charm is one of the few distinctive things about Never a Dull Moment!, a limp comedy from late in her career. Irene Dunne was one of the few leading ladies of Hollywood's golden age that could pull off appearing patrician and sexy at the same time.
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