• The greatest artistic achievement here is from Cary Grant—this is like his 30th feature (and 6th archiveable film) but until The Awful Truth he had mostly been playing the handsome beefcake-type roles (he is always pretty stiff in them until this film) next to Marlene Dietrich or Mae West (always second billing at best). This role best showcases not only his good looks, but his comedic talents- both with the witty one-liners and his physical comedy
  • Irene Dunne pairs well with Grant, and Ralph Bellamy is sublime as the “home on the range”-singing square from Oklahoma. Bellamy would be so good here he’d reprise this role of sorts in 1940’s (similarly themed, and brilliant) His Girl Friday with Grant
  • It is the first leg in the unofficial divorce-remarriage trilogy for Grant. This, His Girl Friday, and The Philadelphia Story
  • Wipe editing that McCarey forgets about after about a half hour
  • Great gag about Grant faking he’d been to Florida and gets Dunne a gift basket of California oranges
  • Grant shows off his skills as an acrobat doing cartwheels and fighting with the butler in one scene, an falling over in his chair, hilariously, in the next
  • Dunne’s fashion and costume is reason worth watching the film alone
  • Gags like Grant trying on a hat that’s too big (it’s the man hiding in Dunne’s apartment) – he looks great and then she asks “did you have a haircut maybe?”
  • Ends with a bit of a variation on the walls of Jericho we-have-to-sleep-in-the-same-room bit in It Happened One Night. A door that won’t stay shut
  • Highly Recommend for the writing and performances. It wouldn’t make me want to see what MccCarey does next necessarily and there is wide gulf between this what Hawks and even Capra are doing in the genre with pacing and editing