Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The light-hearted comedy intertwined with war drama in Mrs. Miniver gave the idea that the team of Greer Garson could handle screwy situations but after a few dramatic pot-boilers kept their work totally serious. MGM's comedies were a familiar bag of repeats but with teams like Loy and Powell and Hepburn and Tracy, they figured why mess with a successful formula?The situation here is a totally familiar one with larger elements of farce. Garson is estranged from her not so stuffy Pidgeon, working in a music hall show. She gets a letter inviting her to her daughter's wedding and ends up stirring up the pot in delirious confusion. Elizabeth Taylor, on the thresh of stardom, is the bride, and she seems more interested in reconciling her parents than her own fiancé. Along comes dashing Peter Lawford to stir up more confusion, and eventually the forgotten feelings of her parents emerge.Encounters with tamed seals and bears, a truly hideous music hall number and Garson's flight into a torrential downpour add on to interference by Lucile Watson as Pigeon's imperious mother and Cesar Romero and Nigel Bruce as admirers of Garson's do as well. Pretty silly going, there is never any doubt how this will play out. If it wasn't for the professional cast and tight direction by Jack Conway, this certainly would be more of a misfire.

Shades of "Lady for A Day," and its remake with Bette Davis of "Pocketful of Miracles," is shown here slightly when a dance hall queen, Greer Garson, wed a wealthy Walter Pidgeon, had a daughter with him and was summarily kicked out of the house by Pidgeon and his mother, Lucille Watson.Years later Garson returns for her wedding. The film is very much predictable with Garson and Pidgeon again falling for each other and Watson using Cesar Romero as the guy to break it up. Romero's mother, the usually quite funny Mary Boland, is wasted here.Taylor's husband-to-be is never shown and yet his parents are. Supposedly, he is off on maneuvers as the wedding approaches. Peter Lawford as the painter is infatuated with Taylor and romance blossoms.Garson and Pidgeon actually did some singing and the last scene where they are both caught in the mud of a rainstorm is humorous.Garson and Pidgeon had such wonderful chemistry between them in their more dramatic films.Certainly, this film was a change of pace for both of them and they make it work.Garson showed her usual dramatic flare in the scene where she meets her daughter for the first time in almost 20 years.She is also a keen mother who realizes that Taylor is falling for the Lawford character.

Greer Garson had beautiful and long legs. I did not know any of this when viewing "Mrs. Miniver" or her other movies. In her typical movies, she is quite proper and above all, a remarkable image to look up to for women. In this movie, however, Greer is so much fun. She has to deal with her prim and proper husband, and in the meantime she cavorts with that all-fun-loving hottie Cesar Romero. My favorite part of any of Greer's movies is the dancehall scene in this movie, when she is dressed in a very short plaid pleated skirt with spike heels. Wonderful!!! Her singing is very good, too. Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Lawford are quite cute in this movie. Walter Pigeon is his usual adorable self with Greer Garson. I feel that they were a well matched pair. I did not like Greer's part in the movie "That Forsyte Woman". I know that she wanted to play against type, but the way that the character of her husband (Errol Flynn?) in that movie treated her I felt was so horrible. That was the movie with Robert Young (I think) as the second man. I feel that that was a horrid "Greer" movie, but "Julia Misbehaves" is my favorite. Go Greer!!! Wish she were still here with us. Perhaps she was not so prim and proper in her real life, either. Ever wonder how and why she got her MGM contract so fast (in one day?)? It has been said that Louis B. Mayer never gave anybody anything without their "earning" it first, LOL. Even Judy Garland, IMO. You figure it out.

Both Greer Garson and Walter Pigeon, having made several dramas together, have done a remarkable switch to comedy. Both are charming and classy in their romp of delight. Along the way with the help of the likes of Caesar Romero, as the head of a family of acrobats, the zany Mary Boland, his alcoholic mother [loved her hanging from the smoke stack of a liner], Nigel Bruce, a woman chaser, attempting to pick up Greer in a lady's clothing shop, Elizabeth Taylor, all of 16 years old and gorgeous, Peter Lawford, also young and gorgeous and Lucille Watson, the wealthy grand dame of the family, Greer and Walter go through the antics of falling into mud puddles, sinking into the water in a beaten up old row boat, being forced to go through a high flying acrobatic act, being slapped on the rear by a trained seal and generally having a grand time of it. Hats off to a slick and silly script and a cast of performers who don't take it seriously at all.