Partners at home and the office

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In Ex-Lady Gene Raymond is an advertising writer and Bette Davis is an artist.and
they are in love and living together. It's an arrangement Davis likes because she
is a modern woman for 1933.

But both decide for convention's sake maybe they ought to get married and be
partners at home and the office.

An ideal it sounds good. But not easy to maintain. Both have temptations and
both really act dumb at times.

Ex-Lady might have been better, but there really was no discernible chemistry
between Davis and Raymond. Bette has enough spark for both.

Nice performances from Frank McHugh who barely drew a sober breath in
those early films at Warner Brothers and Claire Dodd as his wife. Monroe
Owsley plays a snidely whiplash type villain with designs on Bette.

Everybody here has done better.

score 5/10

bkoganbing 11 July 2019

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4988792/