“This
must be fate!”
I
could never imagine being betrothed to someone from an early age. Just the word
betrothed makes me shudder and my
toes curl. I would never want my parents picking someone for me to marry. The
guy would probably be a church going person with a big family and want like ten
kids. All of those things are my nightmare! I honestly cannot even tell you
what kind of guy I like I am such a picky bitch. My friend once asked me that because
she noticed a lot of the TV characters/actors I liked were all completely
different from each other in looks and personality (my love is Danny Messer
played by Carmine Giovinazzo from CSI:NY).
I am too independent and stubborn and free spirited for someone to ever pick a
guy out for me. I could never imagine what being betrothed must have been like
for people throughout history. I always think of all the kings and queens and
how they had no choice but to marry who their parents picked out for them. I always
think too what it must have been like if they hated each other and then had to
have children!
This
rant does have something to do with the 1927 silent film Get Your Man.
Robert
Albin (Charles “Buddy” Rogers”) has been betrothed to Simone since they were
both small children. Their parents are French aristocracy and they must carry
on with outdated traditions. Seventeen years later Robert’s father is ready to
arrange for his son and Simone to marry. Robert is willing to go along with his
father’s arrangement until he meets an American girl in Paris named Nancy
Worthington (Clara Bow). All throughout the day they run into each other at
shops or out on the street. They finally talk and get to know each other at the
Museum of Wax.
Sometime
later, Nancy is at the Albin estate. She crashed her car at the gate of the
house. She has been recuperating at the house for some time when Robert comes
back. They do not act like they know each other in front of everyone. Nancy
asks Simone to go get her a pillow so she and Robert can be alone. To make
Robert jealous and really want to be with her Nancy tells him she is engaged to
someone back home (she is really not). She tells Robert she will break her
engagement if he can break off his.
Nancy
finds out that Simone actually loves someone else as well. She would do
anything to be with the other man. Nancy asks her why she does not just break
off her engagement. Simone replies that her father would send her to a convent.
In
her plan to break off Robert and Simone’s engagement, Nancy becomes very friend
with Simone’s father the Marquis. Robert goes to her window one night wanting
to see her but the Marquis shows up with his flute and plays Nancy a song. She
sees Robert hiding but before the Marquis can see him he runs away. Robert
begins to get very jealous and very upset that the Marquis loves Nancy. Nancy
is just going along with it. The Marquis later proposes to Nancy and she
accepts only on the condition that he break off Simone’s engagement.
Robert
is beyond upset. Nancy gives him a letter saying that she loves him and will
break off her engagement to the Marquis. Now Robert thinks that Nancy will wind
up breaking off their engagement and does not want to take the risk of that
heart break. He replies with his own letter that because of her he has lost all
his faith in women and he is going to Africa to shoot lions and hopes he never
comes back. Nancy manages to get Robert into her room by saying her window will
not shut. She begins to make a big fuss and make a lot of noise. Poor Robert
has no idea what is happening. Soon his father, the Marquis and Simone come
into the room. They find Nancy and Robert in each other’s arms. Surprisingly
the Marquis forgives her and still wants to marry her! Robert’s father asks
Nancy if she really loves Robert and she says yes.
Of
course Robert and Nancy get together.
Get Your Man was alright. It had its
cute moments. This is a comedy but I did not really see the funniness in it.
Clara Bow was good I actually liked her character because she was smart in
everything she did to get Robert and to break his family and Simone’s out of
their old tradition. Get Your Man is
missing two reels but it is not hard to figure out what happened. The film is currently available to view on Youtube.
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