![]() ![]() Constantly seeing her has made no difference to his memory, unfortunately. The Reveal: Paula has been working as John/Charles' secretary under the pseudonym of Margaret for several years. ![]() Leg Focus: Paula does her Music Hall number in the shortest skirt you'll ever find in a 1940s film.The Jailbait Wait: Charles' 15-year-old step-niece Kitty says straight-up that she wants to marry him and asks him not to do "anything rash" over the next three years until she becomes legal.I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Kitty, when she realises John/Charles is still in love with someone else (even though he doesn't know he is).When he didn't remember her, she took a job as his executive assistant. She saw his picture in a magazine, and looked him up. Girl Friday: Halfway through the movie it's revealed that Paula is working for Charles.Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting: A rare female example and all the more interesting since Paula does this while in her very short kilt.While most Easy Amnesia cases are people who have lost their memories but are otherwise fully functional, "John" seems to have forgotten how to talk, and has to re-learn. While this trope is played mostly straight, it is averted in one respect.Easy Amnesia: John Smith loses his memory in the trenches, then regains it in a car accident.Death of a Child: John and Paula's son, who dies after John regains his memories.Brief Accent Imitation: Paula does this in her vaudeville act where she sings in a Scottish accent.She doesn't tell him who she really is, though. Amnesiac Lover: John/Charles can't remember who Paula is, even when she comes to work for him.Unlike most examples, he can't remember his own name, and when he regains his original memories, he can't remember his other name. Amnesiac Hero: John Smith/Charles Rainier.Kitty loves Charles, who thinks he loves her but is still in love with his wife, who he's forgotten all about, Paula is still in love with John/Charles, a psychiatrist who used to know John is in love with Paula, Charles marries Paula without knowing she's already his wife, and she finds it hard to love him because he's not John anymore. All Love Is Unrequited / Love Dodecahedron: Oh boy.His wife has tracked him down and attempted to trigger his memories of her, but failed before this trope can take full effect, his wife has his alter ego declared dead and their marriage annulled, after which his new fiancée breaks off the engagement anyway. Accidental Adultery: The main character is an amnesiac who, oblivious to the fact that he is already married, becomes engaged to a young admirer.Then he goes to Liverpool for a job interview, is hit by a car, and comes to with his original memories restored, but his memories of his life with Paula forgotten. He meets Paula (Garson), a singer, and they leave the town and go to a village in Devon where they marry and have a son. "John Smith" (Colman), an amnesiac soldier in the First World War, wanders away from the asylum he is confined to when the gatekeepers abandon their posts to join a party celebrating the end of the war. ![]() Random Harvest is a 1942 romantic drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, based on the 1941 novel of the same name by James Hilton. ![]()
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