Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Cinephile Beautiful film where a single lounge singer sparks a friendship and eventually a relationship with a successful businessman. They meet once a year in California by the sea. Every year, the man and his girlfriend meet and enjoy fishing, running in the surf, and intimate dinners at a local seafood restaurant. She doesn't ask questions, but simply enjoys his company. He appreciates their time together without any prying into his life. Mrs. Leslie's advice to a young couple embarking on marriage: "Be honest with each other. Give everything you've got. Don't settle for half. You gotta have it all: marriage, kids, the works. It cost me a life to find that out."

rosyrnrn The story is very believable and likely raised a lot of eyebrows back when it was released. I love older movies because they do not show all the gratuitous sex scenes but rather, hint at the possibility. I also appreciate Shirley Booth and Bob Ryan as actors. However, now here is the part that is going to rebut the previous reviews, I personally feel both of these actors are miscast in this movie. Neither seem to deliver heartfelt lines. It really feels like they are just reading the script. Robert Ryan is exquisite in film noir and this is movie is not his forte. And I don't know why Shirley Booth doesn't put any more feeling into delivering her lines because I know she is capable of doing so. So while I think the movie is a very good story line, I wish they would have cast other actors. Just stating my opinion is all and I do appreciate and respect the previous reviewers felt both were absolutely stunning in their parts.

MartinHafer Shirley Booth proved what a good actress she was in this film. While she was memorable and received an Oscar for her performance in "Come Back, Little Sheba", here in "About Mrs. Leslie" she gives a more well-rounded and less pathetic performance. Here, her acting was tops, though the casting was a bit unusual--I might have expected someone like Lana Turner for such a role. That's because the rather ordinary looking Booth plays 'the other woman'--an odd role for a slightly overweight middle-aged woman. Now I am NOT against Booth getting this role and actresses like her getting more roles. Hollywood is too often filled with beautiful women--beautiful and unrealistic women. So, seeing a good actress who is more plain was nice--but in this particular case, the casting was even more unusual.This brings me to my major problem with the film. Although I marveled at the acting (as Booth managed to be even better than the wonderful Robert Ryan--and that's no small feat), I had a hard time loving this film because the film is essentially about a rather pathetic affair. You see, the single lady Booth had an odd affair that lasts six weeks every year, as she vacations with a man (Ryan) and they pretend to be husband and wife (the whole question of sex is omitted in the film). They know little about each other and she knows NOTHING about him--a sure recipe for contentment and lifelong security, huh? But, it did end well and I appreciated how her character seemed to understand this at the end.A magnificently acted film--too bad they didn't put a little more effort into the ordinary script.

BILLYBOY-10 Shirley Booth runs a rooming house in Beverly Hills before WWII. She's an unmarried frump. Thru flash-backs we see her pathetic life unfold. First she's a torch singer in a bare shoulder evening gown. Unfortunately, Shirley Booth is not the hotsy torch singer type and she looks ridiculous. Then she agrees to run off to California with Robert Ryan who has a continuous scowl on his face. The go for a swim in the ocean and Shirley wears a one piece suit with a frilly skirt on it. Shirley Booth should not do bathing suit scenes. Time passes and affairs of her present day boarding house intermingle with her platonic 6 weeks a year "arrangement" with depressing Ryan. Soon, Shirley finds out Ryan is married so she disappears but he finds her one night roaming the streets of New York. They reconnect but he has to split and she has a foreboding that they will never see each other again. The war is over and Ryan dies. He leaves her money to buy a house and then all her current roomers move on. There is a useless scene with the neighbor girl, Pixie which does'nt make sense and Shirley calls Ryan "Mr.Leslie,honey". Throughout the film there is lush, loud overly violiny music blaring. In the scene with Pixie she serves her a sandwich of cold ham. How appropriate.