Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert) is a Magazine Photographer getting ready to mail the magazine owner, so she is in the rich upper crust. Fred MacMurray (Mr. Ryan) is a work in the caves mud worker who gets dirty. The 2 meet when she gets an assignment to photo at the mine. She is strangely attracted to the "lug".
Colbert is always good at doing comedy (It Happened One Night for example) and she is good at this one too. Fred is a guy everyone thinks of more for television because of My Three Sons but he is plenty good in this one where Grant compares him to an empty chair (is this where Eastwood got his Barack Obama idea?).
This movie is not new but considering this is 1943, it has not aged as badly as others. While it is not Fred's best movie role (I'd choose Double Indemnity as that one) this film is quite good as a screwball comedy. It recently ran on TCM and has not been run that often before to my knowledge. It is pretty good, though the strange photo studio shots with the phony strongman are really a bit odd.
Colbert is always good at doing comedy (It Happened One Night for example) and she is good at this one too. Fred is a guy everyone thinks of more for television because of My Three Sons but he is plenty good in this one where Grant compares him to an empty chair (is this where Eastwood got his Barack Obama idea?).
This movie is not new but considering this is 1943, it has not aged as badly as others. While it is not Fred's best movie role (I'd choose Double Indemnity as that one) this film is quite good as a screwball comedy. It recently ran on TCM and has not been run that often before to my knowledge. It is pretty good, though the strange photo studio shots with the phony strongman are really a bit odd.