Product Details

• Actors: Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Peggy Conklin, Lucille Ball
• Directors: Alfred Santell
• Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: RKO RADIO
• DVD Release Date: July 21, 2009
• Run Time: 71 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002IC1ETE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,585 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Having Wonderful Time" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ginger and Doug Make It Fun, September 2, 2009

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Bobby Underwood "starlighthotel" (Manly NSW, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Having Wonderful Time (DVD)

This wonderful RKO film from producer Pandro S. Berman has a sweetness and sense of charm only films from the 1930's posessed. Perhaps because it was a lesser production shoved between RKO's new screen team of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire this warm and enjoyable film hasn't gotten the attention it deserves. Ginger's fans, however, have always been aware of its existence.

Ginger is both lovely and endearing as Teddy, a young typist who laments she must work 50 weeks out of the year just to enjoy looking at the moon for two. It's exactly what she intends to do when she heads to the Catskills for vacation with a sharp outfit and nifty new hat.

Plot takes a back seat to enjoyment as director Alfred Santell lets the romance and humor unfold in a leisurely manner. It is not slow, however, and thanks to those great RKO sets and a nice score from Roy Webb everything is just right. Perhaps with a different cast this would be forgettable, but the two leads make it more than it has any right to be.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is his usual charming self as Chick, a worker at the resort Teddy eventually falls for after a rocky start. Red Skelon provides the humor as Camp Kare-Free's social director. An excellent supporting cast including Peggy Conklin, Eve Arden, Donald Meek, Lee Bowman, Lucille Ball, and Jack Carson as Teddy's ex-boyfriend.

Rogers is terrific here as a nice working girl who would rather play backgammon than fool around, at least until she gets Chick to wise up and realize love is more important than money. This is a nice find for Ginger's many fans who will enjoy watching her in this humorous romance from the mid-1930's. Skelton is actually billed here as Richard! A must own for Ginger's fans.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Opposites attract, August 3, 2010

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Patti Labelle "jeanne" (memphsi,tn) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Having Wonderful Time (DVD)

Ginger Rogers again is great. This is another great love story where she meets up with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and they get off to a bad start but eventually they fall in love. This movie also has some of the great stars before they became well known such as Lucille Ball, Eve Arden and Red Skeleton. Good classic movie.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not one of her best., September 30, 2010

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CelticWomanFanPiano - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Having Wonderful Time (DVD)

I'm a fan of Ginger Rogers which was my main motive in buying this film. And while some of the archive movies of hers that I've bought have been excellent, this one fell short. It centers around professional girls going to a summer camp and finding romance while they are there. Unfortunately, the guy Ginger Rogers is paired up with isn't likeable. Which is the main flaw of the film. Ginger's acting is hilarious and well done as usual. But the fellow is a down on his luck attorney (it is during the Depression era) and he asks Ginger to basically shack up with him rather than get married. She gets upset over that lackluster type of proposal, and rightfully so. With the end result being that he finally overcomes his concern about money and gives her a full respectable proposal. I sat throught his film because I'm a fan of Ginger Rogers, but I don't really recommend the movie based off of its own merit.