Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

SnoopyStyle Happily married Jill Baker (Merle Oberon) is convinced by the girls to see popular therapist Dr. Vengard over her hiccups. He digs into her marriage and she starts to have doubts about her husband Larry (Melvyn Douglas). Later, she meets pianist Alexander Sebastian (Burgess Meredith) in Vengard's waiting room.None of the characters are that compelling. Jill and Larry are rather bland. Alexander is off as the depressed artist. It's old fashion but honestly, the opening is almost insulting. I find it hilarious that it purports to show the Ladies room as a place where no man has gone before and this was written by two men. This is a lesser rom-com without any edge or compelling work. The humor is lacking. I actually don't mind Jill and Larry reuniting because Jill and Alexander don't make a good match either. In an aside, I can't believe that Larry does his Heil Baker during this time in history. I guess it's a joke but it's so flippant that it's disrespectful. There is also hitting woman and other backwards aspects which makes this an awkward comedy.

arfdawg-1 The Plot.Against her better judgment, happily married Jill Baker is persuaded to see a popular psychoanalyst about her psychosomatic hiccups. Soon, she's disillusioned about husband Larry; and one day in the doctor's waiting room she meets pianist Alexander Sebastian, who's even more confused than she is. Can this marriage be saved? I suppose this is an example of a "modern-thinking" movie of the 40s. It's very dated.To be sure, there are some funny moments, but this is a movie where women lie about their age! Come on.

JohnHowardReid First, the good news. A really first-rate pressing of this hard-to- find-a-decent-copy movie is available in the extra-cheap "Hollywood Comedy Legends" set. And now the bad news: Despite the efforts of a first-rate cast, the film is somewhat disappointing and I'm really surprised that Lubitsch regarded the movie with such affection. True, he had a really first-rate roster of players, although all of them (no doubt on Lubitsch's instructions) tend to over-act, especially Burgess Meredith.It's also true that the movie's screenplay presents some good comedy ideas, but they are played to death. We keep waiting for that famed Lubitsch touch, but it never really happens. The film comes across more like a photographed stage play that has been spun out to Three Acts purely for the purpose of giving audiences a run for their money. True, the director takes care to keep things moving, even when the players are not doing or saying anything really amusing, but it's simply not enough to keep audience interest at a high level.

Charlot47 An enjoyable comedy, set among rich white people in New York in 1940, with wonderful clothes for the women.As a traditional comedy, it uses stock types. We have the businessman who has become boring (Melvyn Douglas), his wife (the exquisite Merle Oberon) who wants an affair, the young musician (Burgess Meredith) who sweeps her off her feet, and the young secretary (Eve Arden) who secretly adores the businessman. To be comic, characters exhibit extreme selfishness, pursuing their own desires by manipulating or ignoring other people. We get this in spades from the three principals, forever playing tricks on each other to get what they want next. One of endless examples: the lover scratches the husband's gramophone record after dinner so that he can play the piano instead, only to find that the husband has locked the lid of the piano. Physical knockabout is another strong element. Two of the best moments are when the wife, stuck for an answer, repeatedly throws a faint and when the husband, told by his lawyer to assault her in front of witnesses, repeatedly fails to slap her face.What were contemporary jokes are still fun. Psychoanalysis and modern art are targets for satire, also (an in-joke) that New York was being taken over by Hungarians.Not the overall funniest, most stylish or slickest film around, but a pleasant diversion. Worth watching to see Merle Oberon at her peak.