While Irene Dunne has played many wacky characters, she'd never played a shrew, not until she played the spoiled rich girl who thinks that just because she has checks, she still has cash. The estate executor (Eugene Palette) thinks she's nuts, so he convinces psycho-analyst Patric Knowles to follow her around to get an analyzation, and what Knowles gets is more than he bargained for. Giving up his practice (where obviously lonely society women make up neurosis just go get into his group sessions), he rescues her from a disgruntled chauffeur who has just abandoned her demanding and ridiculous requests, and ends up escorting her out west where she literally starts digging for gold. After reuniting with feisty, no-nonsense granny Queenie Vassar (known in the mining community as Cactus Kate), she literally meets the mine by falling off a ladder into the muck below. A reunion with old childhood beau Ralph Bellamy threatens Dunne and Knowles from revealing to each other how they really feel, but considering that it's never-get-the-girl Bellamy (doing the same part he did in "The Awful Truth", but with a country and western accent as well as spurs), it's obvious how it's going to turn out.
Animal activists are not going to be pleased when they see Bellamy "wrastlin'" with a calf in a rodeo segment. It's obvious that it's not two actors in a calf costume, but others will find it hysterical. Even though Dunne plays a rather nasty bitch, she's actually a combination of Billie Burke and Katharine Hepburn, and just needs a seriously strong man to cut her down to her shoe size. A diminutive little girl named Strawberry is played by a young actress named Jane Garland, and while she's talented, she's certainly no threat to the MGM Garland who was way over the rainbow while Jane was busy down on the ground collecting dollars from the saps she caught hiding something from the people around them. Such dependable character actors as Charles Lane and Henry O'Neill have smaller roles, but it is the taming of shrew Dunne by the suave Knowles and the pistol packin' mama of Queenie Vassar who will grab your attention.
Animal activists are not going to be pleased when they see Bellamy "wrastlin'" with a calf in a rodeo segment. It's obvious that it's not two actors in a calf costume, but others will find it hysterical. Even though Dunne plays a rather nasty bitch, she's actually a combination of Billie Burke and Katharine Hepburn, and just needs a seriously strong man to cut her down to her shoe size. A diminutive little girl named Strawberry is played by a young actress named Jane Garland, and while she's talented, she's certainly no threat to the MGM Garland who was way over the rainbow while Jane was busy down on the ground collecting dollars from the saps she caught hiding something from the people around them. Such dependable character actors as Charles Lane and Henry O'Neill have smaller roles, but it is the taming of shrew Dunne by the suave Knowles and the pistol packin' mama of Queenie Vassar who will grab your attention.