Her love for him makes her loose her lunch!
Carole Lombard learns the truth about the thin line between love and hate in this screwball comedy about two people who hate each other so much they can't bear to be without the other. The passion Lombard feels for business executive Preston Foster (who has arranged for her fiancée Cesar Romero to go to Japan on business for two years) is based upon contempt, but that is all a facade to hide a love she refuses to acknowledge simply because they are so much alike. As it is, Romero is a bit of a yutz, and the women Foster becomes involved with are basically idiots anyway. Lombard challenges him, goes head to head with him over every screwy scheme he gets her involved in, and ends up with a black eye to boot! This gives her an excuse to emulate Dietrich with a hat covering the shiner and later almost drowns because of her stubbornness in not accepting his hospitality on his larger yacht, preferring to risk being swept out to sea on Romero's tinier boat that rocks and rolls as huge waves threaten to capsize it.Foster isn't the ideal screwball comedy lead, but is surprisingly good as the rascally businessman who gets what he wants, and that includes Lombard. He even leaves important business decisions to his board after fighting with him after learning she has arrived to see him. Romero is wasted in his "sap" role, while Janet Beecher seems out of place as Lombard's Billie Burke like mother. Dog lovers will adore the cute Pekinese pup that Foster sends Lombard (which Beecher adopts). While the film overall is unextraordinary, it is still a pleasing if improbably comedy that is rarely made anymore, filled with romance, zany dialog and a likable heroine that seldomly appears in films today.
score 6/10
mark.waltz 23 January 2013
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