![]() ![]() ![]() She agrees to go to "his" boat, but when he learns Mary is not wealthy, Franco quickly loses interest, confessing his scam. He affects an Italian accent and tells Mary he is a journalist who writes about film stars. Franco mistakenly assumes that Mary is wealthy. At a casino, she meets Franco ( Bobby Darin), a hustler from Los Angeles who is down on his luck. In the Bahamas, Mary enjoys the sun and long, empty stretches of beach. Mary tells her she has had to get away from Fred, so Flo promises to look after her. She is on her way to Nassau to meet her latest beau, Sam (Lloyd Bridges). While Mary settled down to married life, Flo has been the mistress of a series of married men, lives a rather carefree and hedonistic lifestyle, and has fully embraced the sexual revolution. Her teenage daughter Marge ( Kathy Fields) is scared by Mary's call, as it reminds her of the time she had found her mother unconscious after an overdose.Įn route to Nassau, Mary meets Flo (Shirley Jones), an old college friend she has not seen since 1953. At a stop-over, she calls home and learns this year's anniversary party has been a different sort of disaster. On the flight she recalls the horrors of last year's anniversary party, when Fred drunkenly flirted with a blonde divorcee, and she took refuge in the bottle and a rerun of Casablanca. At an airline office, however, Mary buys a one-way ticket to Nassau, Bahamas, looking for an escape from her dull and unhappy suburban life. On his way to work, Fred, a successful tax consultant, tells their maid Agnes ( Nanette Fabray) that he has found vodka hidden in Mary's wardrobe and asks Agnes to keep an eye on his wife. Their perfect wedding mirrors the happy endings of the films Mary loves.ġ969: It is the Wilson's 16th wedding anniversary. Mary drops out of college (with 6 months to go) to marry Fred. 1953: Through the course of a Colorado autumn and winter, Mary Spencer (Jean Simmons) and Fred Wilson (John Forsythe) lead an idyllic existence. ![]()
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