My fascination with Carole Lombard continues - her face when attempting to fish, her cute scar, her graceful stoicism - in duet with Cary Grant's unhappily married neighbour. Indeed, they are matched by Kay Francis as the manipulative and utterly callous wife. Charles Coburn is the misunderstanding father, Maurice Moskowitz a useful 11th hour doctor.
RKO. Roy Webb's music typically adept, J.Roy Hunt working in greys.
Seems like the best book on the now neglected Lombard is Larry Swindell's (!) 1975 'Screwball: The Life of Carole Lombard', now annoyingly rare.
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