Peggy Evans (Lana Turner) is 21 and working in her home town soda fountain. She gets a merit award at work for being on time for 1000 days. She wants more out of life and hates her name. After an argument with new manager Bob Stuart (Robert Young), she quits. She leaves behind a letter which is misunderstood to be a suicide note. In reality, she leaves for New York to start fresh. She gets knocked unconscious and decides to not say her real name. The owner fears a lawsuit assuming that she has amnesia. She comes up with an idea to fake the identity of a heiress lost since childhood.
I love that she's lying. I love the way she picks the doll. I do like the fake marriage idea. There is a need for another character. There should be a gold-digging playboy trying to get her family fortune. That would have made the marriage idea even funnier especially if the playboy makes certain assumptions. The problem is that the movie runs out of screwball comedy bits and that extra character could have added some needed chaos. It runs out of wackiness in the second half. There is also a better way to wrap up her identity if they could add something like the doll. All in all, I had lots of fun with the first half which is pretty good.
I love that she's lying. I love the way she picks the doll. I do like the fake marriage idea. There is a need for another character. There should be a gold-digging playboy trying to get her family fortune. That would have made the marriage idea even funnier especially if the playboy makes certain assumptions. The problem is that the movie runs out of screwball comedy bits and that extra character could have added some needed chaos. It runs out of wackiness in the second half. There is also a better way to wrap up her identity if they could add something like the doll. All in all, I had lots of fun with the first half which is pretty good.