Lombard had been under contract to Paramount since 1930, so I'm not quite sure why she had been in all these Columbia films in the early 30s*. Anyway, here she's teamed with Fred MacMurray, as a couple of fortune hunters who end up temporarily living together, with foreseeable results. Lombard is energetic, MacMurray is screwy, Ralph Bellamy looks a little uncomfortable in role of wheelchair-bound millionaire. Fun to see future Sturges people like William Demarest and 'Snowflake' Toones.
It was another big hit after
Twentieth Century. But it's less madcap than that and not as screwy as the best screwball comedies and so today doesn't hold up quite as well. Ted Tetzlaff again photographed. The script was by Norman Krasna, Vincent Lawrence and Herbert Fields.
* She was being 'punished' by Paramount for not taking various worthless pictures they offered her, but in fact she was one of the rare people who got on with Harry Cohn and always had a great time there.
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