I can only imagine that folks who had a nickel to spare in 1931 might have hated
Lowell Sherman. He's a rich unapologetic hedonist who changes women like
bath water. Worse than that he's self made, but got money in of all things, being
an investment broker. If people weren't willing to kill for bedding their wives
they might kill him for making them broke in the stock market.
His day however is interrupted when he runs into Irene Dunne in a fender bender automobile crash. She's on her way to San Francisco, but gets waylaid instead to Sherman's Bachelor Apartment.
Dunne Lives with her more liberal sister Claudia Dell. And Sherman is busy romancing friend's wife Mae Murray currently. Yet somehow they seem fated to be mated.
Bachelor Apartment doesn't wear well. Lowell Sherman comes over more like a Snidely Whiplash villain than a romantic hero. Maybe someone like Tyrone Power or a Robert Taylor might have carried this off, but Sherman no way folks.
Not likely to see a remake.
His day however is interrupted when he runs into Irene Dunne in a fender bender automobile crash. She's on her way to San Francisco, but gets waylaid instead to Sherman's Bachelor Apartment.
Dunne Lives with her more liberal sister Claudia Dell. And Sherman is busy romancing friend's wife Mae Murray currently. Yet somehow they seem fated to be mated.
Bachelor Apartment doesn't wear well. Lowell Sherman comes over more like a Snidely Whiplash villain than a romantic hero. Maybe someone like Tyrone Power or a Robert Taylor might have carried this off, but Sherman no way folks.
Not likely to see a remake.