A charming and sometimes wonderful comedy. I love watching Cary Grant and I'm in love with Myrna Loy. The scenes at the breakfast table are the best with Grant and Loy playing off each other.
I just wish... I hate to quibble over movies like this that don't try very hard to be anything other than light comedy... I just wish there was more Grant and Loy and less Melvyn Douglas. Don't get me wrong, I like Douglas, but anything that keeps the other two from trading banter on-screen is just taking up space. This also includes the first ten minutes, with its quotidian silence and very very very low-intensity humor.
This classic movie feels more manufactured than others of this period. The plot moves along with the kind of artificial devices that are annoying and make you realize just how good Cary Grant is at improvisation (or the appearance thereof). This is only because he doesn't look like he was allowed to do any of it!
I just wish... I hate to quibble over movies like this that don't try very hard to be anything other than light comedy... I just wish there was more Grant and Loy and less Melvyn Douglas. Don't get me wrong, I like Douglas, but anything that keeps the other two from trading banter on-screen is just taking up space. This also includes the first ten minutes, with its quotidian silence and very very very low-intensity humor.
This classic movie feels more manufactured than others of this period. The plot moves along with the kind of artificial devices that are annoying and make you realize just how good Cary Grant is at improvisation (or the appearance thereof). This is only because he doesn't look like he was allowed to do any of it!