David Niven is famous and wealthy. He's also very vain, self-centred, a habitual liar and will do anything to get his own way. He relies on the goodness of others, encouraging them to do the right thing while he does anything but. He is thoroughly unlikable and even early in the movie I was hoping for him to go splat in one of his ridiculous aerial jumps. At the very least, Broderick should have broken his jaw. However he succeeds in snatching Loretta away from Broderick Crawford, not once but twice, and ends up with Loretta at the end. Has he mended his ways? There is no suggestion in the movie that he has. He's a snake to the end. The house they go to isn't the one Loretta built for them (the one she gave him for free and he took his new girlfriend there) as the sign says they've just bought it. Loretta makes one courageous break for freedom in the movie, but she has 'doormat' written all over her forehead. This movie sets male/female relationships back a thousand years - unless you believe that women are really that dumb and shallow and that conceited liars make the most successful men.
Review of Eternally Yours
