Title: Delightful sleeper of a screwball comedy
Product review: Director Archie Mayo's (PETRIFIED FOREST) amusing and often witty screwball comedy with a cast not normally associated with the genre: Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Olivia DeHavilland. Two egotistical stage actors (Davis, Howard) are lovers off stage as well as on but their constant raging battle of egos prevents them from getting married. When a society girl (DeHavilland) develops an intense crush on Howard, her fiance (Patric Knowles) asks Howard's help in disillusioning her. Of course, everything goes wildly amiss. Howard's and Davis's rapid fire deliveries anticipate the rat-a-tat-tat dialogue of Hawks' HIS GIRL FRIDAY three years later. Eric Blore, Spring Byington and Bonita Granville co-star.The Warners Archive MOD DVD is an above average transfer in it's appropriate 1.33 aspect ratio.
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