I was just wondering, I like this movie, but I was curious when Julie first talks to the guy (I can't remember his name) and he goes to her and says i don't like girls with Blue eyes (Even though Maureen eyes are really green) but yet he goes out with Bubbles, who also has blue eyes? How does that make sense?
Maureen O'Hara, Ireland Best Actress. Got Maureen O'Hara and Julie Andrews autograpgh 2008!
Since it's b&w, maybe the writers figured no one would pay attention -- but I also noticed that they refer to Bubbles as being a blonde, though audiences would have known Lucille Ball to be a redhead.
(I know I'm replying to a post that's over a year old.)
Lucille Ball was not known as a redhead until her technicolor MGM films in the 40s. Her natural color was brown, and in most of her 1930s films, she was dyed blonde.
shareYes I knew that.. It was just the eye thing in the film that through me off little
Maureen O'Hara, Ireland Best Actress. Got Maureen O'Hara and Julie Andrews autograph 2008!
Actually, I was responding to chazjac's comment about Lucy's hair color. In both cases, you're viewing it from a "looking back" perspective. Most moviegoers in 1940 had probably never seen Maureen O'Hara's green eyes, and it's pretty assured that they had never seen Lucille Ball with red hair. Since the film was made for the 1940 movie audience specifically, Maureen O'Hara's true eye color was not crucial to the story. Had this been a technicolor film, it would have been a different story.
shareWe're watching it right now. Louis Hayward's character is all manic depressive about his impending divorce, and his soon to be ex-wife (Virginia Field) has blue eyes, so that's why he mentions it to Maureen O'Hara's character. This guy is a pain in the butt with his moods changing on a dime!
shareOne of the positives of BW film. You can get away with things like that. Lucille Ball had blue eyes, but obviously Bubbles did not.
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Even though this film wasn't in color, and in hindsight we know the true colors of their eyes and hair, all the posts regarding the bit about Louis Hayward's character not liking girls with blue eyes are actually moot in my opinion. I think he was immediately mesmerized by Maureen O'Hara's character and NOT Lucille Ball's and his comment about their eye color was to strengthen the point.
shareI don't know what was deleted, but none of the rest of you has it right.
What he really meant was that her blue eyes reminded him of his wife who he was divorcing. It was more like curse your damn blue eyes, why do you have to have those same blue eyes? He was trying to forget his wife, or at least be able to sort of pretend to himself that he was forgetting her, or to get lost in someone else, he was trying to run away from her and not be nagged about his situation or true feeling by more blue eyes that would keep it all on his mind.
It didn't stop him from being infatuated with her, but commenting on it was an expression he couldn't repress. He was telling himself and her and us that there were still a lot of unresolved feelings, pain, anger, regret, doubts and ultimately, still love.