Review of I'll Be Yours

I watched William A. Seiter's 'I'll Be Yours' practically back to back with William Wyler's 'The Good Fairy' (1935) because I wanted to compare both pictures (based on the same play by Ferenc Molnar). While Wyler's film is generally rated higher I liked 'I'll Be Your's' better. 'The Good Fairy' is a delightful, funny film and Margaret Sullavan is great, but comedy was not her strong point. Also, she did not convince me as a seventeen or eighteen years old hyper-naive orphan. In 'I'll Be Yours', Seiter straightened out some of the more implausible bits of the plot (e.g. Louisa Ginglebuscher does not pick her lawyer from a phone book but gets his business card when she meets him in a restaurant). The female lead is less naive and and at least as charming as Sullavan. And finally, 'The Good Fairy' has no Deanna Durbin singing in it. That clinches it!