Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Irishchatter I liked how this movie was far different from other 1940's movies I've ever seen. Young's character's jobs transformed dramatically like from being a farmers daughter to being a maid for Joseph Cotten's character to becoming the first female politician in the story. Honestly Loretta Young can really put on a half Swedish and half American accent. She's just so talented! Even Rhys Williams who played the stupid dope who ripped Katie off Adolph Petree, he honestly knows how to put on an American accent for such an English bloke like him. I suppose if you saw Cary Grant with his movies, you can hardly hear his English accent! Ah Rhys Williams was fantastic too for his role! Im glad this movie got an Oscar award as it is such a very unique masterpiece that is just so underrated nowadays! Watch if you haven't seen it, its brilliant!

ctomvelu1 Brilliantly written social comedy drama about a farmer's daughter who ends up in the employ of a congressman, and then ends up running for office herself. Loretta Young was at the height of her powers as the country girl and Joseph Cotten is the congressman. As I have never cottoned to Cotten, I will say nothing about his performance other than I wish someone else -- anyone else -- had been given the role. I never bought Cotton as an actor, especially as a leading man. Ethel Barrymore is Cotten's politically savvy mother, and the supporting cast is first-rate. The film could just as easily have been made in the 1930s, as it has that era's feel. While it takes a simplistic view of Ame4rican politics, it is still delightful to watch. The subsequent TV series with Inger Stevens was not nearly as interesting.

silverscreen888 Perhaps this is Loretta Young's best film ever, and best performance ever. This attractive B/W classic satire stars Joseph Cotten as her handsome politico boss, Ethel Barrymore as his understanding mother, and an outstanding cast who support their political and romantic involvements. But Katie Holstrom does not begin this film as a candidate nor anyone's fiancée; she begins it on a farm with her large family with a plan to go to school as a nurse in the big city.What happens next is she leaves, and within one day has been bilked of her savings. The need for a job drives her to seek employment as housemaid to a Congressman, Glenn Morley, played by Cotten, and his mother. Ethel Barrymore. Under the house major-domo Charles Bickford, she proves herself to be possessed of charm, common sense, lively intelligence and honesty--qualities which please well when they are not exasperating her employers, unused to such qualities in a world of politicians. Katrin and Glenn find themselves attracted, despite his having a fiancée (Rose Hobart). But when the party's candidate for Congress has to be dumped, it is Katie who somehow gets chosen to run, and wins. The film's climax is Katie's victory, the ending is the romantic pair's arrival in Washington. The values of this award- winning films are not hidden ones. Milton S. Krasner, cinematography, sets by Darrell Silvers and Harley Miller , Edith Head's costumes and many more contribute to the overall effect. The lighting throughout is like a sunny outdoors; and the actors are outstanding. Along with the leads, the director, H.C. Potter, featured Harry Shannon and Anna Q. Nilsson as Katie's parents, Lex Barker, James Arness and Keith Andes as her brawny brothers, Art Baker, Rhys Williams, William Harrigan, Tom Powers, Thurston Hall and many others. The script by Allen Rivin and Laura Kerr adapts Juhani Tervapää's delightful play seamlessly to the screen. The film's pace is interestingly steady and unhurried, its dialogue good or better at all points. The theme of the plot it to be true to oneself; and the story develops this in terms of a time when an individual could be offered as a candidate on the basis of his/her attributes, not of inherited millions. As refreshing as a summer breeze, and often as delightful. This is a classic of anti- Establishment thinking that is only occasionally political at all. Dservedly popular achievement.

rlawrence44 Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten's talented work in this genre of Hollywood leftism. An apt display of its' penchant for the disdain of capitalism, and the glorification of the common working man, there are scenes with script reminiscent of the writings of Karl Marx. It's typical portrayal of populism is typical of the thinking of the Hollywood left that was and still is prevalent to this day. See this film as a set-piece for the views of the era, and its' communist leanings. Young is an attractive and idealistic immigrant, albeit with leftist leanings who sees an establishment corrupt because it doen't guarantee a living wage to all,even as she agrees that one should be responsible for ones own security. It falsely portrays a political machine that allows sinister establishment characters to prey on the public, while idealistic candidate Katie only wants the best for the common man,who has been duped by the establishment.Pure Eugene Debbs propaganda. Cotten is among that establishment, that as a matter of birth, he has been incorporated into the capitalist rip-off, but comes to realize the error of his ways in an epiphany of love of the innocent Katie. Young plays Katie,a wise and sweet maid servant turned political" do gooder" candidate. All and all, a totally implausible script, but wonderfully Hollywood, and totally conformed to the political left leanings of the elite who rule Hollywood, then and now.