nomoons11 I can't describe the disappointment at the ending in this film. It was like a punch in the gut.I don't agree that Ms. Crawford was miscast in this. I think she did an admirable job. My main problem is the story that we get weaves to an ending that's just...stupid...i dunno...I can't think of anything else to match how I feel.The basic outline is a congresswoman gets an invite to get an honorary degree at her old college that she was expelled from. She's happy to accept but at the same time, an old boyfriend from the war turns up 5 years later as if he's still in her life. She obviously hasn't thought a thing about him but he just happens to be a Life magazine photographer and will be at the College to photograph the story.Well, she accepts the honorary degree because the love of her life is the school president. Before they give her a degree they want to show a film of a speech she made but one of the main trustees of the college doesn't like it and wants it not to be shown. In the meantime she and the president decide to get married. She soon finds out that he's like all college presidents in that...he bows to the alumni pressure on things as they decide they want the film to not be shown. She doesn't like this because she sees that he's weak. By and by the old boyfriend keeps throwing jibes at her any time he can to break up her idea of him. She decides not to marry the president and get back together with the annoying guy who won't take no for an answer.This film was basically a backdrop for the communist witch hunt times. It was hot off the presses at the time this film was made. It's not a hidden plot in the film, it's disguised a bit as "free speech in education" but to me the whole film hinged on the 3 leads and their personal issues...and she chooses the annoying guy who has nuthin but ill will in mind. How does this make women look? She chooses the guy that keeps harassing her? The president makes an error in not letting the speech be heard...but then decides to go ahead with it and she says...nah...but they remain friends. Gimme a break.It comes down to Crawfords character showed no interest in the guy she ends up with throughout the entire film. There's no lead-in anywhere to show he would be the one she walks away with. This wasn't a bad film at all really. I just can't recommend a film with a really dumb ending like this. Total disappointment.

olarko While this picture ranks as a pretty heady Joan Crawford fantasy, this picture is NOT Joan! It is, however, Joan as she wanted to be seen -- younger than her peer Clara Bow, glamorous, caring about mothers and constituents and others, and hopelessly romantic. Truth be known, her only care for others was for her fans -- that they continued to write her, to adore her, to idolize what they believed to be her! Only one other reviewer tells the truth about the tawdry life of Joan before she was 18; none tells of the continuance of that life when she embarked on Hollywood and had her three or four careers there. That same reviewer, incidentally, is the only one who mentions that "Goodbye, My Fancy" was a hit play before it fell into the clutches of La Crawford, so while its premise and material might be heady for behind-the-times Hollywood, Broadway and the "road" had seen and enjoyed the play for a while before Hollywood tackled it! The 6-star rating is for the fact that this Crawford epic is meatier than the films-about-nothing that she usually made!While Robert Young played the usual stalwart, faceless, and characterless version of Robert Young that he usually played, and while Eve Arden managed to steal every scene in which she appeared -- even if only in the background -- no one mentions the name of the real man in the film, the really masculine character and actor who could more than handle La Crawford: Frank Lovejoy! He waited in the background, as he says, until she stops playing Little Nell from the Country and comes back to Earth! He and Arden are easily the best actors -- and give the best performances -- in the film."Goodbye, My Fancy" is better for these two actors, for the rest of the supporting cast, and for the production values than its two stars -- Crawford and Young, in case you forgot -- deserved!

nickandrew This was one of Crawford's last films under her Warner Brothers contract and was probably here first big box-office failure since her MGM days eight years earlier. The film is not too bad, but not as good as "Mildred Pierce," "Possessed" or "Flamingo Road." Crawford plays a congress woman who returns to her alma mater to receive an honorary degree, but finds romance with professor Robert Young.

bergman-6 What plays on the surface as a "romantic triangle" film carries a strong anti-McCarthyism message. Robert Young is the once-idealistic President of an exclusive Women's College who years earlier had trysted with Joan Crawford, a Congresswoman who has made a film depicting aspects of injustice. Crawford wants to reunite with Young and have the film played during Graduation Weekend. The school's trustees don't want the film shown, thinking it too "dangerous" for their students to see. The characters' arguments about democratic values play well with a modern audience, and both the political and the romantic aspects of the plot unfold in an engrossing and entertaining manner.