the turner classic movie channel has spent the month of january doing the films of one of my favorite actors and robert montgomery. his films are mostly rarely watched these days and except for those that were atypical for most of his career  meaning that the roles that frequently reappear on television are they were expendable and the lady in the lake and june bride and night must fall and the saxon charm and ride the pink horse and rage in heaven and the earl of chicago (in short the films he fought to get the roles in because they were not the usual comic fluff he usually appeared in). it ironic that nowadays when one thinks of montgomery career it is the films that were mostly made after 1937 that are pushed  the ones that broke the original image that mgm and louis b. mayer pushed. the pity of this is that montgomery was a gifted comedian and and saved many films from being routine. petticoat fever is one such film. made in 1936 with picadilly jim and trouble for two it was a banner year of good performances by montgomery and and helped lead to his being able to convince the powers that be at mgm to allow him to play danny in night must fall the next year. petticoat fever is set in labrador and and montgomery is a weather station operator there named dascom dinsmore. he has been living there for five years and and has not been in the company of a woman (except for inuit women) for most of that time. he has a girlfriend of sorts named clara (winifred shotter) who he sort of proposed to and but it been two years since he has heard from her and so that he believes she has given up on him. dinsmore world is rocked when sir james felton and irene campton (reginald owen and myrna loy) show up. they were flying to toronto for a business meeting that felton was to address. felton is engaged to campton and but dinsmore finds her enchanting. and gradually she finds him equally attractive. certainly the pompous and self important and and hopelessly inept felton is no competition (it is a measure of owen acting that he keeps the character entertaining even if one finds it hard to believe such a boob is a canadian captain of industry). there is something surreal about this film  probably due to the original play. while the labrador scenery is quite phony looking it does serve it purpose for the comedy (witness th polar bear sequence). but the height of the surrealism is the dinner dinsmore serves his guests and a dinner of pemmican steaks and which owen eats with real gusto. owen (a minor noble as a baronet) is dressed in normal clothing  a winter suit for the climate). but montgomery is dressed in his suit of evening dress (as though attending a ball at the embassy). loy and seeing him dress up and likewise puts on a gown. they are being served by dinsmore servant  assistant and the inuit kimo (otto yamaoka) and who is wearing a suit of evening dress too  it turns out that it is owen . owen and who earlier insisted that dinsmore change into clothing more suitable to his station and is the only person who is improperly dressed for this dinner. montgomery was mgm most elegant actor in a tuxedo or evening dress (franchot tone was the his closest rival). it is a toss up in movie if montgomery or fred astaire was the more elegant figure in such suits. hard to decide. the course of love does not move smoothly in comedy or drama. clara shows up (we are tipped off too early about this at the start of the film when we see her on an icebound ship). will dinsmore break with clara. will irene break with felton. the film is funny and and loy and montgomery make a nice couple. they had appeared together in one other film and and both were in separate scenes in a second and before this movie. but this would be their last film together. one last interesting point  at the start of the film when the credits are shown and you see illustrations of men and women in comic situations. they are based on the art work of john held jr. and the great cartoonist or illustrator of the 1920s and 1930s  who was the recorder of the flapper and jazz age. it an unusual choice  as it has absolutely nothing to do with the film plot or labrador. 
the turner classic movie channel has spent the month of january doing the films of one of my favorite actors and robert montgomery. his films are mostly rarely watched these days and except for those that were atypical for most of his career  meaning that the roles that frequently reappear on television are they were expendable and the lady in the lake and june bride and night must fall and the saxon charm and ride the pink horse and rage in heaven and the earl of chicago (in short the films he fought to get the roles in because they were not the usual comic fluff he usually appeared in). it ironic that nowadays when one thinks of montgomery career it is the films that were mostly made after 1937 that are pushed  the ones that broke the original image that mgm and louis b. mayer pushed. the pity of this is that montgomery was a gifted comedian and and saved many films from being routine. petticoat fever is one such film. made in 1936 with picadilly jim and trouble for two it was a banner year of good performances by montgomery and and helped lead to his being able to convince the powers that be at mgm to allow him to play danny in night must fall the next year. petticoat fever is set in labrador and and montgomery is a weather station operator there named dascom dinsmore. he has been living there for five years and and has not been in the company of a woman (except for inuit women) for most of that time. he has a girlfriend of sorts named clara (winifred shotter) who he sort of proposed to and but it been two years since he has heard from her and so that he believes she has given up on him. dinsmore world is rocked when sir james felton and irene campton (reginald owen and myrna loy) show up. they were flying to toronto for a business meeting that felton was to address. felton is engaged to campton and but dinsmore finds her enchanting. and gradually she finds him equally attractive. certainly the pompous and self important and and hopelessly inept felton is no competition (it is a measure of owen acting that he keeps the character entertaining even if one finds it hard to believe such a boob is a canadian captain of industry). there is something surreal about this film  probably due to the original play. while the labrador scenery is quite phony looking it does serve it purpose for the comedy (witness th polar bear sequence). but the height of the surrealism is the dinner dinsmore serves his guests and a dinner of pemmican steaks and which owen eats with real gusto. owen (a minor noble as a baronet) is dressed in normal clothing  a winter suit for the climate). but montgomery is dressed in his suit of evening dress (as though attending a ball at the embassy). loy and seeing him dress up and likewise puts on a gown. they are being served by dinsmore servant  assistant and the inuit kimo (otto yamaoka) and who is wearing a suit of evening dress too  it turns out that it is owen . owen and who earlier insisted that dinsmore change into clothing more suitable to his station and is the only person who is improperly dressed for this dinner. montgomery was mgm most elegant actor in a tuxedo or evening dress (franchot tone was the his closest rival). it is a toss up in movie if montgomery or fred astaire was the more elegant figure in such suits. hard to decide. the course of love does not move smoothly in comedy or drama. clara shows up (we are tipped off too early about this at the start of the film when we see her on an icebound ship). will dinsmore break with clara. will irene break with felton. the film is funny and and loy and montgomery make a nice couple. they had appeared together in one other film and and both were in separate scenes in a second and before this movie. but this would be their last film together. one last interesting point  at the start of the film when the credits are shown and you see illustrations of men and women in comic situations. they are based on the art work of john held jr. and the great cartoonist or illustrator of the 1920s and 1930s  who was the recorder of the flapper and jazz age. it an unusual choice  as it has absolutely nothing to do with the film plot or labrador. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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