True Confession (1937 Wesley Ruggles)

Thankfully our mixed bag six film Carole Lombard 'Glamour Collection' ends on a high note, back at Paramount (home of the best thirties comedies) and re-teamed with Fred MacMurray, and - of course - Ted Tetzlaff, who follows her everywhere, like a faithful dog. (In fact there were quite a few star / cameramen teams in the old days, if you think Robert de Grasse and Ginger Rogers, Franz Planer and Audrey Hepburn, Garbo and Bill Daniels...)

Fanciful Lombard, in good screwy role, forever making up stories, gets into trouble when Weinstein-like employer turns up dead. Lawyer husband MacMurray defends her but only after she's claimed she killed him. Then dipso John Barrymore (I'm saying nothing about real-life parallels here), accompanied by Friedrich Hollander's dipso theme, turns up, claiming he did it...

Good support from Una Merkel, Porter Hall, Edgar Kennedy (exasperated cop), Lynne Overman (bartender), Fritz Feld (butler), Tom Dugan (attempting to repossess typewriter) and Hattie McDaniel in one of her two minute parts, wanting to know if it's OK if she bumps off her boyfriend.