1h 28min | Comedy, Romance | 10 May 1941
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Stars: Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, Rita Hayworth, Ralph Bellamy, George Tobias, James Gleason, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen.
Watched online, ok print, but sound gets out of sync easily.
I must have found this movie online and decided to watch because of RH. It's not a musical and not tagged as such.
Ralph Bellamy got the short end of the stick on the credits, and again in the plot (he's the jilted fiance). MO, DM and RH were listed ahead of the title, and he leads the pack after it. He's onscreen at least as much as she, if not more.
I'd call this screwball comedy, and a comedy of remarriage. The problem is DM plays a reporter who lies frequently to get what he wants. Why should MO want him back? Apparently she can't help herself: whenever she thinks he's injured, she rushes to his side. Not well versed in Aesop's The Boy Who Cried Wolf, the screenwriters reward him for his mendacity in the end.
Warner, dir. Bacon; 6-
