Once again, Claudette Colbert is a wacky heiress, unaware that her supposedly wealthy pop William Collier is now broke. She decides to go to work and finagles a job working as assistant editor at happy go lucky Robert Young's magazine where new editor Fred MacMurray wants nothing to do with her and keeps trying to get her to quit by treating her rough. Like the Gershwin song from "Girl Crazy", she likes it and falls in love with him but circumstances push her back towards Young, leading MacMurray to seek advice from her father how to get her back.
Having rethought my original rating of 6/10 (***/****), I found how little I tolerate MacMurray in roles like this where he's supposedly the all American boy next door, and really just nothing but a big ole' jerk. Young is easy going, perpetually drunk at night, and not too bright, but even with those aspects, he's far more appealing than MacMurray. Colbert isn't a prize either, far too fickle and not written with any consistency in this Wesley Ruggles directed script by Claude Binyon.
Funny bits with Donald Meek as a judge (who stands up to the much bigger MacMurray in a very funny way) and Edgar Kennedy in the typical slow burn as a justice of the peace (with a wife whose playing of the wedding march leaves more to be desired) aide this with laughs, but the often done story has been done many times and much better. Stick with Colbert and MacMurray in "The Egg and I" where the obstacles were much more believable even if MacMurray was a bit of a pill in that too.
Having rethought my original rating of 6/10 (***/****), I found how little I tolerate MacMurray in roles like this where he's supposedly the all American boy next door, and really just nothing but a big ole' jerk. Young is easy going, perpetually drunk at night, and not too bright, but even with those aspects, he's far more appealing than MacMurray. Colbert isn't a prize either, far too fickle and not written with any consistency in this Wesley Ruggles directed script by Claude Binyon.
Funny bits with Donald Meek as a judge (who stands up to the much bigger MacMurray in a very funny way) and Edgar Kennedy in the typical slow burn as a justice of the peace (with a wife whose playing of the wedding march leaves more to be desired) aide this with laughs, but the often done story has been done many times and much better. Stick with Colbert and MacMurray in "The Egg and I" where the obstacles were much more believable even if MacMurray was a bit of a pill in that too.