Vacation from Marriage

"Silly of me, for a minute I thought that was Cathy. But that's not her step, nothing alike." In 1940, London bookkeeper Robert Wilson (Robert Donat) and his wife Cathy (Deborah Kerr) lead a mundane marriage until the war breaks out. Robert enlists in the Royal Navym while…

Daniel

I watched a film made 75 years ago to mark the 97th birthday of the utterly fabulous Glynis Johns. In Perfect Strangers she plays Dizzy, the Wren whom Deborah Kerr befriends during her wartime service. Dizzy displays the typical Glynis qualities: a sexy insouciance married…

Fint

Robert Osborne has never let me down and Vacation from Marriage is no exception. The film joins my personal canon of slow, unspooling affairs of the heart. Donat & Kerr have slipped into the doldrums of their marriage before they both take action and join the Royal Navy and…

Marcine M.

spiritually I'm glynis johns looking at deborah kerr with her big anime heart eyes

Alwine

You had me at Robert Donat. Add in Deborah Kerr and an academy award winning story, and this is officially a delight. Masquerading as a WWII melodrama, it swiftly emerges instead as a funny, clever, and very British, comedy of marriage. Donat was quoted as saying, "It's a…

heatherNZ

A mousy ineffectual couple (Deborah Kerr and Robert Donat) that are just as married to mundane routine than they are to each other under go wholesale personality transformations during a three year period of war time separation from each other. Quite a good film nicely…

Scott Kelly

What a surprise we have here! Truth be told, I only wanted to see this because of Cinematographer Georges Périnal, the man who lit THE LIFE AND TIMES OF COLONEL BLIMP and THE BLOOD OF A POET. Perhaps I was just in the mood for a Deborah Kerr film. After all, she’s great in…

Scotty Walter

Unlike other Robert Donat roles, his Mr Wilson in Perfect Strangers doesn't expire. In fact, he blossoms. So, seperately, does Deborah Kerr's Mrs Wilson. The magic conditions that bring about this emancipation of an otherwise ordinary couple? The disasters of war. That's…

Richmond Hill

Yes, we all got tanned in the summer, but it wore off by the end of September--just as everything else wore off. When you do the same job--day-in day-out, year after year--it's easy to slack off taking exercise, slack off reading. Groove is comfortable, so is a grave they…

Meg