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This delightful and zany film from MGM is one of the great forgotten examples of screwball comedy. An amazing cast and fine direction from Norman Z. McLeod make this little-known film a real gem.
Constance Bennett may have shortened her own career by being difficult to work with but shows here why her swanky sophistication, touched with sweetness, made her such a huge and sought after star during the 1930's. Young Bonita Granville, always a favorite, also gets to shine as her younger sister.
Bille Burke gives another in a long string of delightful performances as their daffy mom who has a penchant for taking in tramps in an effort to reform them. Brian Aherne as her latest project and Alan Mowbray as their put-upon butler would steal any other film but everyone else is so good here that their topflight antics blend right in. Add a great song from Phil Charig and Arthur Quenzer and you have a screwball masterpiece.
Brian Aherne is novelist Wade Rawlins. When the car he rented gives out and then goes over the side of a mountain he stumbles upon the Kilborne mansion only to use the phone but is soon drafted by Emily Kilborne (Billie Burke) to be her latest project, much to the consternation of the entire family, especially the butler, Grosvener (Alan Mowbray). An exasperated Rawlins (Aherne) soon gives up trying to use the phone and plays along.
Soon all the sevants love him and young Marion (Bonita Granville), who sells info to the rest of the family for two bits a pop, has a huge crush. But it may be real love for swanky Geraldine, who slowly warms to the charms of the tramp who cleans up nice. Bennett is sweet and fabulous here and looks as good as she plays in outfits by Irene. Her scene pretending to lose her key so Rawlins will help her through the window will have you smiling.
When a senator's young daughter named Minerva (Ann Dvorak) takes a shine to the Kilborne's new "guest" Geraldine gets jealous and plays domestic by making fudge with pickles in an attempt to seem more desirable. There is a hilarious scene as Rawlins trades crazy gestures with a smitten Granville standing behind Geraldine, who just looks confused and somewhat amused.
Screwball also had charm, and this one has it in droves. Only in a screwball comedy would someone who's just had a pail of water splashed in their face jump into the arms of the perpetrator and respond with: "I knew you loved me!" This is a wonderful film that is light and delightful and a splendid time capsule of this genre of film during the 1930's. They don't make films like this anymore and they don't build 'em like Bennett anymore either. Film fans don't want to miss this one!

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