A female marriage broker attempts to do a little freelance matchmaking for her friend who is a beautiful unattached model.A female marriage broker attempts to do a little freelance matchmaking for her friend who is a beautiful unattached model.A female marriage broker attempts to do a little freelance matchmaking for her friend who is a beautiful unattached model.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
Lucile Barnes
- Model
- (uncredited)
Bunny Bishop
- Alice
- (uncredited)
Robert Board
- Usher
- (uncredited)
Harris Brown
- Conventioneer
- (uncredited)
Kathryn Card
- Mrs. Kuschner
- (uncredited)
Harry Carter
- Big Doug
- (uncredited)
Ken Christy
- Mr. Kuschner
- (uncredited)
Blythe Daley
- Receptionist
- (uncredited)
- Director
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- TriviaOne of cinema's most stalwart supporting actors, Thelma Ritter enjoyed her only starring role in this film, in which she appears in nearly every scene prior to the one-hour mark, when Matt (Scott Brady) meets Kitty (Jeanne Crain) for their first date. The only other film that came close in terms of her screen time was The Mating Season (1951), in which she was also central to the plot.
- Goofs(at around 1h 21 mins) Just after Mae pulls up the window shade, out of frame a crew member apparently moves something that casts a tall vertical shadow on the apartment wall at the right edge of the frame. The shadow looks like that of a coat rack, but might be of equipment such as a stand to support something else.
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Dan Chancellor: Beautiful up here, isn't it? Those trees. I've always liked that poem that said, "Only God can make a tree."
Mae Swasey: Yeah, but on the other hand, you gotta figure, who else would take the time?
- ConnectionsVersion of The 20th Century-Fox Hour: The Marriage Broker (1957)
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George Cukor may well have directed more good movies than anyone else. Not to say that he was the greatest director of all time. Orson Welles was no slouch. Neither was Sam Fuller. But look at the list of movies Cukor directed and you will see an extraordinary oeuvre.
"The Model and the Marriage Broker" is one of the lesser known of his very good movies. It has beautiful shots of New York. The ensemble cast is uniformly superb. The story is appealing, thanks to Charles Brackett. And Thelma Ritter -- the great Thelma Ritter -- gets to play a title character! (She is the marriage broker -- two words and more letters -- rather than the model, of course.) She could light up a movie the same way Shirley Booth could. Some say she stole movies from others. Here that was not necessary, as she is the star. (Her best performance, for me, is still in "Pickup On South Street." But that is a supporting role.) Shirley Booth did so few. She must have been great on the stage. What a shame for posterity that she made only a handful of movies.
Ritter, however, made loads of them. And this is one of her best. It also is one of Cukor's best. Who could say which is his best? Probably there is no single best. I do feel he was generally better with black and white than in his color outings. And I have a particular fondness for "The Marrying Kind." But who knows? The Judy Holiday and Aldo Ray characters might originally have been brought together by the character Ms. Booth plays so beautifully in this story.
"The Model and the Marriage Broker" is one of the lesser known of his very good movies. It has beautiful shots of New York. The ensemble cast is uniformly superb. The story is appealing, thanks to Charles Brackett. And Thelma Ritter -- the great Thelma Ritter -- gets to play a title character! (She is the marriage broker -- two words and more letters -- rather than the model, of course.) She could light up a movie the same way Shirley Booth could. Some say she stole movies from others. Here that was not necessary, as she is the star. (Her best performance, for me, is still in "Pickup On South Street." But that is a supporting role.) Shirley Booth did so few. She must have been great on the stage. What a shame for posterity that she made only a handful of movies.
Ritter, however, made loads of them. And this is one of her best. It also is one of Cukor's best. Who could say which is his best? Probably there is no single best. I do feel he was generally better with black and white than in his color outings. And I have a particular fondness for "The Marrying Kind." But who knows? The Judy Holiday and Aldo Ray characters might originally have been brought together by the character Ms. Booth plays so beautifully in this story.
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