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The Moon is Blue (Theatre)
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The Moon is Blue is a Romantic Comedy play that was adapted into a film, both written by F. Hugh Herbert.The story begins with the meeting of two New Yorkers: Donald Gresham, an independently employed architect who owns five acres in Maine, and Patty O'Neill, an Irish-American aspiring actress. Don and Patty first notice each other in a drug store, and — after following her up to the observation deck of the Empire State Building — he invites her over to his East 49th Street apartment for a drink. She accepts, on the condition that he refrain from making passes at her. The view from the top is obscured by thick fog, which turns to rain by the evening. A couple floors above Don's apartment lives David Slater, a wealthy middle-aged libertine with an eighteen-year-old daughter named Cynthia, who just had an acrimonious breakup with Don, and an ex-wife in Brazil. Patty finds David ingratiating enough to have him stay for a steak dinner, which she cooks in Don's apartment for the three of them. David stays for the rest of the evening, and undermines Don's moral self-assuredness by almost convincing Patty to marry him. For all his affairs, however, David turns out to be as old-fashioned in his attitudes toward parenting as Patty's father.Otto Preminger, who directed the original 1951 production of the play, produced and directed the film version with William Holden as Don, Maggie McNamara as Patty, and David Niven as David Slater. The film, which was Preminger's first independent production, was released in 1953 by United Artists without the approval of The Hays Code (unusually for its time). | |
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Likes Older Men | |
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Likes Older Men: Patty tells Don that he's too young for her to see as a potential husband, and that she really wants to marry "a nice, middle-aged man with gobs of dough," preferably an unhappily divorced one who might have kids. She finds the type in David Slater. | |
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Officer O'Hara | |
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Officer O'Hara: Detective-Sergeant Michael O'Neill, Patty's dad. She describes him as being Brooklyn-born but "Irish from way back" and talking in a thick brogue when he gets angry, which he does in the only scene where he appears. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Cynthia, David's Southern Belle daughter and Don's ex-girlfriend, never appears onstage, nor is her voice heard when she phones him; she does appear in the film version. Vicki, Patty's slightly older roommate, appears in neither play nor film. | |
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Thinker Pose | |
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Thinker Pose: Don claims to have found David Slater "sitting over there like Auguste Rodin 's The Thinker" when coming to his senses after being hit in the eye. | |
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The Hedonist | |
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The Hedonist: David Slater lists his interests as "steaks—liquor—and sex—in that order." | |
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Extremely Short Timespan | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: Lampshaded in the final scene: "Just think—we only met yesterday." | |
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Closet Shuffle | |
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Closet Shuffle: A few hours after Don has been knocked out by Patty's dad, when he hears someone ringing his doorbell and knocking, he hastily shoves her in his bedroom, remembering to put her purse and jacket in there as well. Unfortunately, when David picks up the phone he overhears her on the bedroom extension, and turns on Don with righteous indignation. | |
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Irony as She Is Cast | |
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Irony as She Is Cast: invoked In-universe: Patty acts and looks like a good girl in person, but plays a tart on TV. | |
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Parody Commercial | |
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Parody Commercial: Patty appears on television in a singing commercial for beer in the film version. | |
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You Say Tomato | |
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You Say Tomato: | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The first and last scenes of the play have Don and Patty meeting on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, introducing themselves in the first scene, proposing marriage in the last. | |
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That Liar Lies | |
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That Liar Lies: Lampshaded, when Don is denying that anything happened between him and Cynthia when she spent the night in his apartment: | |
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Like an Old Married Couple | |
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Like an Old Married Couple: In the final scene, when Patty suddenly starts arguing with Don about spending so much money on gambling, he tells her: "Will you kindly shut up? We're not married yet." She smiles, realizing what he's just said. | |
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Roman à Clef | |
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Roman à Clef: Discussed: Patty once had an affair with a writer, and months after breaking up with him was shocked to read a short story in The New Yorker written by him telling what was identical to the story of their break-up except for the names. | |
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Boyfriend-Blocking Dad | |
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Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: When Patty's old-fashioned Irish cop of a father finds her in Donald Gresham's bedroom getting dressed, he hits Don in the eye just hard enough to knock him out. David drops in at this moment, and takes it as a lesson on how to handle his daughter, Cynthia, and goes so far as to chastise Don when he later finds Patty in a similar situation, though he admits that it's none of his business. | |
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Caught in the Rain | |
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Caught in the Rain: Don takes Patty over to his apartment for a drink, with the plan being to then go out for dinner. However, a downpour starts, and Patty doesn't have a raincoat, so she decides to make a home-cooked meal instead. He still has to go out and buy groceries, and she still manages to get her dress stained due to David mishandling a ketchup bottle. | |
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Beef Bandage | |
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Beef Bandage: After Don receives a shiner from Patty's dad, Patty, who is concerned about his eye but believes he deserved it, suggests this: | |
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Age-Gap Algebra | |
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Age-Gap Algebra: Patty is 21 years old, and finds out from Don that he's 28 years old. (In the film version, she's 22 and he's 30.) She's quite delighted with her calculations: | |
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Idle Rich | |
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Idle Rich: David Slater, who probably never worked a single day in his life and won't have to for the foreseeable future. He wins $600 in a game of gin with a "bloated capitalist who grinds the faces of the poor," who turns out to be Don. | |
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Take Back Your Gift | |
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Take Back Your Gift: Patty decides to give David back the six hundred dollars, an amount equivalent to fifteen weeks of her salary, he gave her, when she overhears a remark implying that she ought to have remained beholden to him for that duration. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: David says that his wife divorced him for extreme cruelty after he hit her across the behind with a skillet. "Matter of fact, I rarely strike anyone but a woman," he explains. | |
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