Not as gaga about this film as the Wes Anderson crowd but it's an engaging rom com. First half tries too hard to appease the Hays Office, with tired tropes about turn of the century suffragette types being lonely, phony, plain Janes, to mention nothing of the even tireder trope of asking the viewer to believe that the beautiful, sexy Olivia DeHavilland is unattractive to men. (Basically, this gal spent most of her acting life trying to de-Melanize herself). Second half redeems the first, however, with The Epsteins' screenplay offering some sharp, realistic looks at unhappy married life as well as a nice combination of light and dark, with Cagney's unjust incarceration for his father's death being used as a springboard for his wacky dental ambitions. And the performances of the four leads are spot on. However, by film's end I was just as glad that director Raoul Walsh decided to concentrate on westerns, war pics and gangster films instead. Give it a B minus.
PS...Superman as a Yalie? Works for me.
PS...Superman as a Yalie? Works for me.