When Melvyn Douglas is masquerading as the 'gardener' and he keeps whistling and whistling.. we could both have killed him. Then it's all the more satisfying when Irene Dunne 'twists the tables' (to use my Q's phrase) on him and forces him into the public eye and shameful divorce. So it's a slightly irritating set-up with a most satisfying resolution, written by Sidney Buchman from a story by Mary McCarthy.
With Billy Benedict, uncredited, in the newspaper office - in hundreds of bit parts well into the eighties. Plus a good part for Robert Greig - known to us as Preston Sturges' butler types - as the wicked uncle.
Shimmeringly photographed by Joe Walker, produced by Everett (brother of Robert) Riskin.
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