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Poor Mr. Matuschek!

posted 16 years ago by sarahmalekzadeh
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He's so lonely now! It's not like he can be bffs with the new errand boy or anything. I love how he was so touched by the Christmas tree too, a sensitive guy like him needed to hook up with a nice broad at the end of the movie or something lol

[–] romanza521 16 years ago

I was so happy when he finally found someone to have dinner with him. Maybe after the film he finds those two blondes in the balloon. :-)

[–] donofthedial 16 years ago

That's why I like FOX musicals. None of the principles is ever is left alone at the end of the film. In ON THE AVENUE, Alice Faye gets paired up with George Barbier who appears to be 40 plus years older than she is.

[–] ungerreese 16 years ago

In "Coney Island", Ceasar Romero is left by Betty Grable at the end. Although I don't think he'll be alone for long.

[–] cclowell 12 years ago

That's why I like FOX musicals. None of the principles is ever is left alone at the end of the film. In ON THE AVENUE, Alice Faye gets paired up with George Barbier who appears to be 40 plus years older than she is.

I've never liked the ending of ON THE AVENUE. Alice ends up with an aged "sugar daddy" and Madeline Carroll ends up with Dick Powell, with whom Alice was in love.

I always thought Alice was the nicer, more down-to-earth of the two ladies, but I guess money really DOES talk. Even if Powell ends up miserable in his marriage to Carroll, think how comfortably he can suffer as the husband of such a wealthy lady.

Anyway, you might have a point in there somewhere. In the less stellar musical remake of SHOP, 1949's IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME, Van Johnson's character says in the film's opening that S.Z. Sakall (the Frank Morgan character) "never married" Spring Byington, even though a good deal of the film is devoted to their slighty skewered courtship (which even includes an engagement party!)

[–] donofthedial 12 years ago

I agree w you. I just think that they ran out of options. Alice got the moneybags!

[–] GForce59 15 years ago

The scene where he is running down the menu with Rudy and they walk off smiling and happy is my favorite moment of the movie.

[–] cmashieldscapting 13 years ago

The scene with him and Rudy at the end was very sweet. Maybe he ends up with Flora at the cash register or someone.

[–] coldnaps 9 years ago

That's exactly what happens!! :-)

[–] rachaelov 12 years ago

It is very sweet. He took Jimmy Stewart's character under his wing also, as a fatherly figure. The implications is he'll "adopt" Rudy too (as an aside, where did they find those strange child/adult character actors?). As other's have said, its a remarkably unsentimental film, and has an edge to it. Perhaps Matuschek will never find another woman. Perhaps he'll be happy as the head of his "home", as he described his shop near the end, and all his family of workers.