Despite the writers it isn't particularly funny, and the marital bust-up thing is just annoying and lacking in credibility (Olivia bursting into tears at any moment, Fonda unable to handle about two drinks). And too much football stuff.
In a sort of mirror, actually quite a good mirror, the sub-plot has daughter Joan Leslie being dated by football jock Don DeFore (a ridiculous 29) and intellectual Herbert Anderson (slightly better: 25).
No problem with Arthur Edeson's photography nor with Ivan F Simpson as supportive Dean, nor Hattie McDaniel - though she's seems to be relegated to a basically nice but slightly dotty housekeeper role again - a retrograde step.
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