Joy of Living (1938)
6/10
**1/2
2 January 2017
Warning: Spoilers
In certain scenes Douglas Fairbanks sounded just like Ronald Colman.

This becomes a mad caper type of film where Broadway luminary Irene Dunne meets up with fan Douglas Fairbanks who is a care-free guy and after a day of frolicking together, they decide to wed.

Guy Kibbee and Alice Brady play her parents and Lucille Ball her sister, who is also her understudy in the Broadway production and is quite envious of her.

It is at the end of the film that Dunne realizes that the 3 are nothing more than parasites who are living off her fame and fortune and see Fairbanks as a threat to all that.

The drunken scenes and ice skating scenes just add to the flavor of a very average film. Dunne's voice is lovely.
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