Julia Misbehaves (1948) Jack Conway, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Comedy, Romance

February 8, 2017

1936. Julia Packett, a London chorus girl, is always in trouble financially, but she always seems to manage to land on her feet by using her feminine wiles to manipulate the men in her life with a smile on her and usually their faces.

Much to her surprise, Julia receives an invitation to her now grown daughter Susan Packett’s wedding to upper crust Roderick Pennystone to be held in the Packett mansion outside of Paris. Julia being a wife and mother is something of which her current social circle had no idea. Julia and her equally upper crust husband William Packett met during the war when he was enlisted and she a bright eyed seventeen year old just starting out in the vaudeville business. They split – separated but never divorced – because of their fundamental class and thus attitudinal differences when Susan was just an infant. Julia knew that it made sense to leave Susan with William because Julia’s working life, which includes late nights and often being on the move to where the …