The Lady Says No (1951) DAVID NIVEN
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2013
- Stars: David Niven, Joan Caulfield, James Robertson Justice
Director: Frank Ross
Complications ensue when a handsome magazine photographer arrives in town to do a feature on the woman who wrote a best-selling book warning women about the dangers of men! - Фільми й анімація
Thank you 4 the movie loved it
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Thank you for sharing! I would much rather watch a great, old movie like this than pay a fortune to see trash...
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Absolutely. All junk today. However this is great.
David Niven was great and movie is beautiful
A delightful yarn--thanks for posting! One detail that added to the Golden Screen Era features is the orchestral background music. Kudos to Messrs. Lange & Newman for their artistic talent in this picture. And, of course, Miss Caufield, Mr. Niven, Miss Bavier, et al. gave stellar performances. Some of the zany scenes resembled many teen comedy movies of the last 40 years--a rarity in earlier decades!
Harmless and zany war of the sexes, with Niven and Caulfield in good form. Thanks for posting!
Zany, light hearted, fun but complicated. Loved it. Great movie to watch at Valentine's. ♥️👏
Rockin’ that retro RV!
I love this oldie but goodie I give it 5 stars
Fantastic Indeed!!!!!
A brownie reflex? What a hoot!
Nobody in here but us chickens! OMG this is exactly what my husband does.
Joan Caulfield was very lovely. She also had pretty legs. This is the first time I have seen her. Enjoyed the picture and her acting.
Joan Caulfield rocked. David Niven and Aunt Bee go along for the ride. Thanks, PizzaFlix!
She and Frank Ross were married. In 1957, they produced her unsuccessful NBC sitcom, "SALLY" (under the "Caulross" production banner). They divorced in 1960.
Love David Niven! thanks for the movie
"Twenty-Seven Ways To Say Yes." Someone should write that book!
Lots of laughs! Reflecting the sexual mores of the “naive and innocent” fifties. Joan Caulfield was a beauty!
J. D. Salinger is said to have honored her by naming Holden Caulfield after her.
It predicted a feminism allied with sexual conservatism.
Excellent Movie.
I wish I knew the name of the dancing black lady! What a dancer!
This actress reminds me somewhat of Elizabeth Montgomery...Bewitched. I also don't recall seeing David Niven playing such a physical role as this; I remember him as the super suave & debonair sophisticated man. I enjoyed this movie....Thanks..!!
I thought so too, especially some expressions.
Watch the 1960s original Pink Panther film with David Niven. He did a few very funny physical scenes in that film.
Elizabeth Montgomery reminds me of my mother, both very beautiful ❤️❤️
What an adorable movie I’ve probably seen but don’t remember. And even Aunt Bee found love! Thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks a lot for uploading and sharing.
Thanks for the upload I initially read David Nivens novel "the moon's a balloon"and for the 1st time I have seen him acting am great full.keep it up pizza flix.
NIVENS EARLY ENDEAVORS AS A BRITISH OFFICER WAS A TOUR DE FORCE OF INSUBORDINATION.
FUNNY HOW HE ALWAYS PLAYED THE PRIM & PROPER ENGLISH GENTLEMAN IN FILMS.SEE CASINO ROYALE.
@@richardconner1283 Adore him in anything. But I admit. Murder by death was great!
Another good movie. Thanks PF.
Trust Hollywood to cast a great Scottish /English actor as an Irishman.
What a joy. You’ve done it again pizza flix👍
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My parents owned a camera like the one used on the beach - didn't use it but I used to play with it in 1969.
What a sweet movie. Loved it!
Unbelievable premise: no book promoting abstinence would be a best seller!
Really funny most enjoyable.
a young aunt bee and so many more!!
Aunt Bee !!!! Opie would be thrilled.
Nice cool movie , I like it !
9/10. Highly recommend this comedy👍👍👍
"I'll paddle your little platform." Never heard that one before,
Flora Bunda: Certainly wouldn’t be included in any modern comedy.
@@janethartwig774 Why not?
Reminds me of the more contemporary film Down with Love starring Renee Zelweger and Ewan McGregor...cute...and old Carmel is lovely ...miss it🦁🌊
Great movie 👍
Loved it
Thank you for this wonderful movie use to watch them with my mom when I was little 58 years old now brings back amazing memories I had with my mom thank you again 💜💜🤗🤗
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Lovely, thanks for sharing such a sweet memory! 👏👍👍
Same here. Saturday and Sunday afternoons watching movies, talking about the stars with mom and eating popcorn. David Niven was colorful man.
Really loved this movie 🎥🍿
I’ve seen aunt bee on 2 other movies. Best known on the Andy Griffith Show. First time to see this movie. Good movie!!
Excellent mega post kiss "slap"!!!
Whew. A bit much.
Thank you for sharing.
God bless
Loved the speeding scenes with trailer doing U-ies, and veering around curves. They sure don't make 'em like they used to. Makes me want to see "The Long Trailer" with Lucy and Desi again!
Please post more good clean comedy movies
Well well, Yoda seems to get everywhere.
I enjoyed this movie, thanks. Joan Caulfield was so beautiful and very good in this.
The first movie with David Niven I watched where he is older. Very charming. Great Britain produced so many great Hollywood actors - David Niven, Leslie Howard, Basil Rathbone, Bob Hope.... amazing.
His age sometimes worked against his being right for this particular character. When the pair are having their "romantic evening," David Niven looks very old and unattractive in the background.
Great to see Aunt Bee.. I knew she had been an actress before Andy Griffiths show.
time stamp?
This movie is one of those "Battle of the Sexes" films delightfully acted out in a whimsical manner.
"I took me gun and pushed into the interior..." What fun for '51. It's unlike anything I ever saw Niven in, and he and he and fellow brit JRJ seem to enjoy their crazy circumstances, to boot.
David Niven had lot of comedies done and done well. Wtf are you smoking with your breakfast kipper!?
RW --- Many of the stars at that time had seen the rougher side of life and truly appreciated how lucky they were to be making money and living in California when it was the golden state.
The stuffed cockatoo worth watching a few times; what a crack up.(about 38)
@35:30 "I took me gun and pushed into the interior" omg
I'm surprised they got away with that, especially coming from her uncle!!
@@varonadee6980 He was reading from Dr. Shelby's book ... but yes, really creepy for an uncle to read that to his niece.
1951....a very good year. Love the hood ornament on the Chrysler Imperial. A graceful swan contemplating flight. Exemplifies the story here, ONLY when it's time has arrived will it happen. You can't force a rose to bloom before it's time, but you can create the right environment. All is fair in love and war.
There used to be an old couple in the neighborhood back in the day (1980s) that had his and her matching cream-colored 1951Chevy Belair convertibles with red interiors. I drooled each time the garage door was raised. They bought them new that year... the year they were married.
great
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So now we finally see what Aunt Bee was doing before taking care of Andy & Opie.
Aunt Bee😄😄😄
@@angelacalderone9608 glad you got the humor !
"It takes a woman to make a home. And another woman to wreck it!" 🤨
Aunt Bea !
anybody know the name of the tune Uncle Matt is "chanting" at 17:52 ?
same tune whistled by Tom in The Norman Conquests !
It may sound silly but when I was a kid that was the alphabet song's tune!!! :):):)
Its called "Cock of the North" - dance tune from Scotland. Well suited - JRJ was a Scot.
I remember, once upon a time it was legal to drive like that. 8 people or even more in a little car without seat-belt! and they even drove safely, without causing any accident. All changed in the late 1980s.
Good old days...
Today everyone is paranoid, only 4 or 5 people allowed in a car, with mandatory seat-belts. Yet, we have more accidents than ever since cars were invented.
I just love this movie! thanks for sharing.
Actually, they DIDN'T drive safely, which was why things like lap belts, shoulder belts, and safety glass became law.
Cars were a lot slower then.
Pravina Sings and built like a brick $hit house! Today’s cars don’t hold up as well in a crash.
@@bradmiller2329 Actually what happened is that the insurance industry found out that if the person was trapped in the car they usually died instead of costing them millions of dollars in reconstructive surgery and this is why they lobbied our laws to change it so now they no longer have to pay if you don't have your seat belt on has nothing to do with any safety at all.
@@sandrastanislav2656 Sadly, I have no trouble believing that! But it raises the question -- with the "new" car laws, (ultralight build to get the required MPG) -- if you are wearing your belt, and still get mangled, how will that affect the insurnace companies?
Who is the african american lady dancing? She was very impressive!
A screwball comedy, if ever!!
Ms. Caulfield was quite the "looker" and a competent actress. She looks a lot like Elizabeth Montgomery and has the same "sparkle".
Thanks for the upload!
I agree with you about Joan Caulfield. I actually watched the movie for Peggy Maley who plays Midge. Maley is also lovely and a fine actress as well. There's a bit of a problem with the casting of David Niven. He really seemed a bit too old and tired for his role. His acting veers with it sometimes seeming he is bored with the project.
Watched this because I thought it was the original of "Down with Love." How wrong I was.
A funny film, great...
Originally released in December 1951.
David Niven's age is really apparent in parts of the "romantic evening" scene. You see him in the back and he doesn't look at all like the young stud who will sweep Miss Just Say No off her feet but an aged and tired fellow.
Reminds me of "Down with Love." Joan Caulfield's acting is stiff and the writing is terrible but if you dont take any of this seriously it's a light little film, and the proto-feminist subplot is interesting.
The Black woman dancing is the best part!
Someone should write a sex manual entitled "27 Way To Say Yes" and sign it "Dorinda Hatch."
I couldn't warm to Jane Caulfield's character at all, from start to finish. But love James Robertson Justice as the Uncle. Especially as he was portrayed in the dream scene - wonderful!
Totally agree, Joan Caufield never did anything for me.
I was born in 1951, and saw this based on that curiosity. Well, the whole movie was pretty much as infantile as I was then. I did though enjoy some of the nostalgia, and by the end it did pull on my heart strings, resolving the war of the sexes' folly with something a little wiser, and sounder. It still had the corny manner and methods they began in the 30s, which is always a historical kick to observe.
I agree. Seemed like 7th grade juvenile drama. But in a more simpler an innocent time. It fit. Always adored David Niven...
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@annacolleen wesson etters Most likely. Today we look at the silliness and have seen it many times on different forums. Then it was fresh and cute. I envy the innocence . Its why I enjoy these films. Sort of wish I was born earlier.
It is a poor movie of historical significance because it predicted a feminism opposite the one that actually came into existence.
@@denisenoe7746 Are you a feminist Denise Noe? What was the feminism they predicted, and what was the one that actually came into existence?
@@davidparker2173 The predicted feminism was a pro-abstinence, sexually conservative feminism. This makes sense! Women who fear or hate men should, naturally enough, keep them at a distance. However, 1970s feminism was in the wake of The Pill and Masters and Johnson's "discoveries" of female greater sexual capacity. I put discoveries in quotes because it was known in ancient Greece and known to any teen girl who spends a lot of time in her room. But this caused an link between feminism and sexual "liberation."
Thank you for posting this.
Much funnier than I'd have guessed, quite surreal.
Good script, well acted, a lost classic.
The underlying issues, feminist extremism, and recognising when one is in love, is as much a social problem today as then, probably more so.
Gordan Frickers just proves once again that human beings do not change over time. Clothes, music and cars may, but the human condition has and will always stay the same.
@Gordon; the character played by Niven represents the conundrum viewed by that era, and existing today, that when a woman says 'NO', it's not perceived as actual and a bit of 'romance' will change her mind. The reality - when ANYONE (woman or man) says 'NO', it is to be taken as such v laughingly overridden. The premise of the title reinforces the idea that 'No' doesn't mean NO, that it's a game that favors the power of the male dominant character - in actuality, many sexual assault cases include the woman saying 'NO' but overwhelmed by the male perpetrator regardless of how the woman repeats 'NO' / struggles / tries to break free. The trivialization of this, specifically the belief that 'she's just saying NO, she really wants it' (uninvited touching / kissing / groping / sex) is part of the presumed game of flirting - almost always at the expense of the woman, and in the defense of the perp's brought to trial. It's NEVER ok to push someone, regardless of gender, into sexual encounter of ANY sort when they have said 'NO', nor is it acceptable to assume that 'No' means a debatable 'Yes'.
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I doubt the costumer got much work after this. From failing to cover a zipper in back adequately, to those terrible darts, he didn't know what he was doing.
Funny, entertaining movie with an important message. Women and men need to learn each other's love language. What one woman may like does not speak for all women.
This mediocre film is important for the sorts of wrong predictions it made. It actually makes good sense that "feminism" would ally with sexual conservatism and an abstinence message. But the feminism that emerged in the 1970s was to some degree hijacked by sexual "liberation" and had the opposite message to "The Lady Says No." The contrast between what the film thought a feminist movement would look like and what it did look like is valuable.
I Love Aunt Bea !!
So she assaults him because he whistled at her? I'd have pressed charges and sued for damages. Thanks for posting this time capsule.
Yeah I think that was supposed to be comedic but no one is going to actually do those things. Plus, if a guy catcalled me (which is a form of harrassment and should never be seen as a compliment) I'd sooner say something to show I'm not interested. But if he then gets in my bubble like this guy does and tries to touch me, he will get hurt!
An oddity about this film is that it predicted a pro-abstinence, sexually conservative feminism. That's not the feminism that came into being in the 1970s. The '70s feminism emerged in the aftermath of The Pill & the studies of Masters & Johnson so it was as far fr/"The Lady Says No!" as possible. This film is important because it points out a natural, logical link between feminism and abstinence.
Another British film good cast comedy
I watched this movie several years back, as a David Niven fan, and was dumbstruck by how it was clearly another Hollywood vehicle to make a star out of the young woman, and after we get that utterly awkward wooden dance in the leopard print, it immediately followed up with the black woman in the café who showed how to do it right.
I thought that was so hilarious.
yes who was the black woman in the cafe? I loved her dancing
@Cat Magic there are several examples of how dance was interpreted as done by white people and black people. Now the black woman here at the time was really regarded as rather clownish with her dance, while yes, the star, Joan Caufield, was supposed to be alluringly seductive and sexy. Just breaking all the taboos.
And that is about the best place to begin; with Come Back Little Sheba, where Shirley Booth is listening to the radio station, Taboo, and all of it's dark, forbidden music. Basically the music seen here in the dream.
"Crazy Legs" Rowena is also uploaded here where she appeared on You Bet Your LIfe and does an absolutely hideous gyration that was supposed to be a dance craze, I'm sure, but no way could anyone do that for a good year, tops, and I guess it is a safe bet you never saw a black person doing that.
And God's honest truth, it reminded me of the dances cartoon characters used to do around that time. I thought to myself, huh, it was a real dance.
One bit I always found too funny, and I haven't seen the movie after one viewing, was Doris Day in Teacher's Pet singing "I'm the Girl Who Invented Rock and Roll".
First off, it was hardly a 'hound-dog, crockin' song, but it was supposed to make her come across as an incredibly daring woman, way too bold and sassy for any man to control. She would have been better off going for Que sera sera.
When the white women behaved like this, they were shocking, "well, I never!" stuff, supposed to upset granma. And be all the more enticing for the guys wanting that bad girl. Such was the case here with Caufield. This was supposed to 'launch' her as a star, but obviously that never happened.
Niven was miscast. A younger actor was needed to show the feminist-abstinence teacher the error of her ways.
I also wondered who that lady was. She is not credited so her name is apparently lost to us.
@@2up3rm4n1 "The Lady Says No" was basically a prediction of what a feminist movement would look like. The prophecy was off as to what did develop. The film is important precisely because it predicted a feminism allied with sexual abstinence. The premise if more than a bit outlandish as no book promoting abstinence would become a runaway best-seller nor would women en mass adopt celibacy just because an author pushed it. Another way the film was off is that it predicted a feminist movement composed of stout hair-in-a-bun cat ladies who stay home and knit when they aren't advising women to Just Say Not.
9:08 i can't imagine what they'll find to do in Monterey. Although There will be a little music festival in the future.
lduring her dream fantasy: 38: Uncle drummin; oh YES; So far my favorite shot. Totally cool; could be from today.;
I agree!
Is she now going to write a modern day of the Kama Sutra? Will she write a version of "The Sensuous Woman"?
I love movies from the 30's, 40's & 50's. But not this one.
Looks like it was filmed on location at the now closed Fort Ord, California and in the Monterey and Carmel areas.
It will inevitably be bought on the QT by the banks in China, like all the rest of coastal North America.
The base has a college now, my daughter attended.. we grew up in this area.. cool weather.. missing it.. even in Hawaii... If you ever visit, check out Point Lobo's, Big Sur, Cannery row & Carmel Highlands... so beautiful..
That was a cute movie, I remember her from other movies. I'm surprised they haven't made another one. : D A remake, dud. Haha
Wau ! At that time ladies really were beautiful .
How come they don't look that feminine and beautiful anymore ? 😱
Let's see we need to eat practically nothing and have 50 layers of makeup and a super tight girdle...
It's not how they look but how they act.
Tattoos hide all the natural beauty
Even the ladies in the jungle scene were so beautiful.
Women's Lib.
Otherwise known as Women's Liberation.
The fateful year was 1968 in the USA.
Women burned their bras in the streets. Fashions changed b/c women had won equal rights, meaning the same rights as men.
So women went to work 40 hrs/wk, thus had no time to iron, have fancy hair-dos, women had to dress more like men to be taken seriously by their bosses. Also dressing more masculine meant women would be more likely to stave off sexual harassment. Also to fit in better in a man's world, women dressed more masculine.
No more femininity. Nothing feminine must remain: dresses were replaced by the pant suit. No more feminine hats, gloves, purses, belts & ruffles, lace, shaws, stoles (fur or otherwise), colors, full skirted dresses, etc.
The only things that remained, only occasionally, were hosiery & high heels.
Women wanted to change their images completely & the female Hippies helped the previously conservative woman to break out of her feminine "shell."
Also, the 1970s economy plunged into inflation so there went the expensive jewelry.
Notice in this movie that the leading lady even wore several gold & diamond barrettes in her hair.
Now women get tattoos to be just as masculine as men.
No wonder there's such identity crises & unhappiness with oneself now.
The fateful year was 1968....
Henry Jones
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Why it's Aunt Bea from the Andy Griffith Show.
Aunt Bea!
Faith Smith : I think she was born with her hair in that style.😄😄😄
Too bad even DN fell for it!
DN. What are they saying NO too?
Very clever
At my dorm at UCLA in 1971.
The answer to NO was
EVERYONE IS DOING IT!
LIKED JOAN IN "THE PETTY GIRL"... SHE WAS ALWAYS A GOOD ACTRESS...EXCEPT IN "THE RAINS OF RANCHIPER" IN 1955...WAY TO OLD FOR THAT ROLE...LOVED HER IN "DEAR RUTH"...UNDERATED...
Is Dorinda Hatch prepared now to write a modern version of the Kama Sutra?
At least some sort of sex manual?
Aunt Bea! Wow
At first I thought JC was grace kelly
al meggs
Hardly
Funny coincedences...and it's been so long since l passionately kissed l can't remember when!
@jesus perez well when someone named Jesus replies...it feels official! Shall do...someday...soon...l hope and pray! ❤
It's Aunt Bee!!!!!!
Year I was born
That secret tells us a liar
Aunt Bea also features here
Even Niven admitted that this was a dreadful movie . Still, it’s years , furlongs and fathoms better than the trash of today , so…..thank you Pizza Flix.
Way before seat belts lol...
Jane Caulfield's acting was ok to me. The dance went badly, but I took it as an intentional farce.
She pulls something like that on me, both of them are back on the shoulder "toot sweet".
Yep. Yanks say that. It never comes out in proper French as tout de suite.
Never seen Aunt Bea in a thing except the Andy Griffith Show.
A tween movie by today's standards except for a couple of double entendre lines that SHOULD go over their heads. Meh to Ok movie. Interesting in that it documents society in the past. The actress is eye candy with planned personability. I thought the best part was her reaction to the drink.
Suppose Niven needed the money
He certainly did. He walked out on Samuel Goldwyn after he felt he was being loaned out too many times, and not given enough opportunities to demonstrate his versatility in any of Sam's films. Niven believed Goldwyn privately "sabotaged" his reputation in Hollywood......and as a result, he appeared in films like this to stay afloat financially. In 1952, Dick Powell invited him to form "Four Star Television" with Charles Boyer, and participate in their first TV series, "FOUR STAR PLAYHOUSE". Niven soon became one of the leading performers in that anthology, and never looked back.
I know: stupid movie