- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 1942
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Romance
- Director:
- Best Performances:
- Premiss:
- Inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his loving wife decides to raise it for him by divorcing him and marrying a millionaire.
- Themes:
- Personal change | Self-expression
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- DVD
Absurdly-plotted comedy about the human absurdity of the relationship between money and sex.
Claudette COLBERT does well in a role that does not really fit her. She is ill-at-ease with slick, fast paced dialogue; preferring to use her cheekily-expressive face to get across the movie’s more censorable elements.
Rudy VALLÉE is brilliant as a mild-mannered millionaire who talks an awful lot of sense about life and business; taking his inherited wealth as it comes – as he does people. Mary ASTOR essays her usual sluttish characterization (based partly on herself) with unmistakable relish and well-meaning gusto. She is silly and superficial, but you cannot help laughing because she is so funny with it. And, as usual with director Preston Sturges, he foregrounds the women as a way of showing how weak and overblown the men are.
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