As always, Carole Lombard was able to show her comedic genius in this 1937 film.
As a writer with quite an imagination, she is married to struggling lawyer Fred MacMurray. He is struggling probably because he is so ethical.
As the couple is suffering financially, Lombard takes a position with a fiend who wants far more than secretarial skills and when he winds up dead, she becomes the prime suspect. MacMurray, believing she is guilty, represents her and pulls the idea that she was defending herself against the rogue when he came on to her.
John Barrymore steals the film as a drunken rogue who is constantly appearing at the trial. His revelation at the end is hilarious, but the outcome is inane. Kudos to Edgar Kennedy as the flustered detective who accuses Lombard of the crime.
Una Merkel completes the cast as Lombard's friend. They could almost be like Lucy and Ethel.
As a writer with quite an imagination, she is married to struggling lawyer Fred MacMurray. He is struggling probably because he is so ethical.
As the couple is suffering financially, Lombard takes a position with a fiend who wants far more than secretarial skills and when he winds up dead, she becomes the prime suspect. MacMurray, believing she is guilty, represents her and pulls the idea that she was defending herself against the rogue when he came on to her.
John Barrymore steals the film as a drunken rogue who is constantly appearing at the trial. His revelation at the end is hilarious, but the outcome is inane. Kudos to Edgar Kennedy as the flustered detective who accuses Lombard of the crime.
Una Merkel completes the cast as Lombard's friend. They could almost be like Lucy and Ethel.