Love Nest (1951)

hyped garbage

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Serviceman and aspiring writer Jim Scott returns home after the war to find his wife Connie had bought a rundown apartment building. With a large mortgage and no other income, the married couple work to fix up the old building. New renter Mr. Patterson seems rich but his many identities suggest a con man. He entices widow tennant Eadie Gaynor and an FBI agent comes asking questions. Jim's war buddy Bobbie rents an apartment. Connie is surprised to find the expected guy Bobbie turns out to be the sexy WAC Roberta Stevens (Marilyn Monroe). Scott friend Ed Forbes (Jack Paar) is taken with the former model. When the city orders the building to be rewired or be condemned, the Scotts face financial ruin.Obviously, Marilyn Monroe is the big draw for modern audiences. At the time, she had caught the eye of the studios before hitting it big. She has the blonde look and the beautiful smile but she's not the breathy bombshell yet. It's really only a supporting role. It's great to see an earlier version of the iconic blonde. The plot isn't much. The lead couple is sweetly charming in a white bread way although he could be nicer to her. He's still a man of his times. The laughs aren't big but it's nicely easy. Nothing is outstanding except for sexy Monroe but that's all one needs anyways.

Love Nest is a funny witty movie....the actors are great in this film. I love the role that June Haver, and William Lundigan Play their part really good. Its very interesting to see how they will sell the building that they are living in. Its great family movie, even though its a classic and the story is back in 1951, its till fits in the times of today society. Expenses, and price increases. great show...it should always be shown. I love it, and I am thinking of ordering me a copy. Thank you for letting me share my view on this lovely funny and witty movie.In this movie, it shows you how to survive and how people had done things to make life easy for them. Today, they should have more movies like this on TV instead of the violence. Great movie.

As a way of an investment, Connie Scott, eagerly awaiting the return of her G.I. husband Jim from the war, buys an apartment building in Manhattan. All the money they had saved goes into the place, leaving them cash strapped until they begin getting any kind of operating profit form the rents they are charging their tenants. Jim and Connie, much in love, did not know into what they were getting. Things break and Jim is ill prepared to fix the problems.Connie rents an apartment to Charley Patterson, a man of a certain age, who charms Eadie Gaynor, one of the other tenants, an older woman with an unmarried daughter. Things liven up with the arrival of Bobbie Stevens back from a tour of duty with the army in Europe, who happened to be friendly with Jim. Connie does not care too much about Bobbie, whom she perceives as a flirt who might be after her husband, nothing further from the truth.For their anniversary, Jim takes Connie to a fancy club where they watch Charley romancing a smartly dressed woman. Connie becomes suspicious of her tenant's activities, feeling he might be using her friend Eadie. Jim, an aspiring novelist, suffers the rejection of his first book, but when Charley is finally caught for taking money from his lady conquests, takes him as the writer of his memoirs which becomes a best seller."Love Nest" a romantic comedy from Twenty Century Fox of 1951 is an entertaining look at that era. That Jim and Connie could buy a piece of Manhattan property for a song is in sharp contrast with today's prices. That era reflected a new kind of hope for America which had gone through a war and was now in the midst of prosperity. The newlyweds were part of that feeling as they build a viable piece of income as they started in their married life. As directed by Joseph Newman, the film is fast paced and fun to watch. The screenplay was written by I.A.L. Diamond, one of the best in the business who adapted the Scott Corbet's novel with great flair.June Haver made a wonderful and peppy Connie. William Lundigan appeared as Jim. Frank Fay is delightful as the man with charm enough to seduce women who did not mind to shower him with money and gifts. Marilyn Monroe played Bobbie Stevens. She was at the height of her beauty at the time. Jack Paar one of the early hosts of the talk show formula on television is at hand playing a lawyer interested in Bobbie's charms.

I found "Love Nest" to be light,engaging, nicely moving romantic comedy.The two leads(June Haver& William Lundigan) are very likable and there's a fine supporting cast. Jack Paar is entertaining as a witty friend of the family. Marilyn Monroe does her talking mannequin thing and doesn't overstay.Frank Fay does a nice job as an old lady charmer(real & fake). The script, by Billy Wilder collaborator I.A.L.Diamond, has some good one-liners and some actual heart-felt moments; as a just furloughed G.I./writer and his young wife find them selves owner of a dilapidated apartment house in N.Y. city and all that goes with it (fussy tenants,building inspectors,kooky cat).It has a scratch your head ending, but it's a pleasant viewing experience.(note: the DVD has Marilyn Monroe plastered all over the cover.She's hardly in it.)