mark.waltz A charming cast is laden with a stink bomb of a screwball comedy that rolls around for 65 minutes like a non- stop roller-coaster, one where the twists and turns have no thrills and the ride ultimately no point. It's as lavish to look at as a Dick Powell/Ruby Keeler musical, and even with the often paired team of Kay Francis and George Brent ends up falling flat. Marital mix-ups and post divorce games follow Francis and ex- husband John Eldredge, with Francis declaring revenge when she discovers her ex is planning to marry the woman he left her for. Confusion erupts at the home of Francis's aunt (Helen Lowell) when a bunch of unwanted guests end up there, including Brent, Eldredge, Claire Dodd, Genevieve Tobin and alleged car thieves. I needed a character map within the first five minutes of this, ironically the third time I've tried to watch this and make sense of any of it.As the first screwball comedy that Kay Francis would do, it seemed like a nice change of pace from all those soapy women's films. She had proved herself capable of being funny in films like "Girls About Town", "Trouble in Paradise" and "Jewel Robbery", and is certainly gay here (as in happy go lucky) and completely charming, but a bit of a shrew in her plot for revenge against her ex. A scene where she attempts to explain all to a private detective reveals that even the writer knew that this was perplexing and overly complex, making me wonder how this got out of the writer's building at Warners.Interestingly enough, Brent appeared in a very similar screwball comedy the following year ("Snowed In") that had a similar set-up and is equally perplexing. Other than Francis, Brent and Lowell, the cast is rather unremarkable, and even with the lighthearted atmosphere, the direction is dizzying and even headache inducing. I thought maybe the third time would be the charm on liking this, but I guess when I run out of Kay's mother love sagas, I can return to this and see if the fourth time does the trick.

Kalaman This is an interesting little Kay Francis programmer, co-starring her frequent leading man George Brent. It's a small and delicate Warners melodrama. It aroused my interest because of Francis.I liked "Goose and the Gander" but it is not one of Francis' best roles. The plot is a bit baffling and sometimes hard to follow but it is fun and entertaining picture thanks to the charm of Francis & Brent. This is one of three films Francis made with Brent in 1935. The others are "Living on Velvet" and "Stranded".

David (Handlinghandel) This is the best of the Kay Francis vehicles, and I had never heard of it before a couple days ago.Kay is stylish, George Brent actually looks handsome. And there is a real plot, not just cutesy and/or tear-jerking posturing.Married couples, formerly married couples. And -- a couple who are jewel thieves.It zings along and is great, amusing, romantic fun.

whpratt1 Enjoyed viewing this great film classic and the great acting of Kay Francis (Georgiana Summers),"Play Girl",'41 who loved to fool around with George Brent("Bob" McNear),"The Great Lie",'41 who was a married man. It seemed that everyone else in the picture played husband and wife with lots of infidelity and everyone telling little white lies about who is married to who and why we have to have different rooms to sleep in and why we have twin beds in our rooms. It seems that being divorced was a very evil thing and talking about their "EX" husbands was the in THING!. Genevieve Tobin (Betty Summers),"The Petrified Forest",'36 and John Eldridge (Lawrence Thurston),"Superman",'73 enjoyed stealing automobiles(coupe type) and even going into being a jewel thief. It was great viewing this film and seeing just what people were watching during the YEAR 1935. This film was probably considered X rated. The old gas stations, furniture and women's fashions, plus the modern auto's in the 1930's made this a great film classic with all these young actors starting out in their film careers.