What to expect
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne make suspicion, improvisation, and social embarrassment feel like a shared language. Leo McCarey lets comic timing reveal that the pair understand one another too well to become indifferent.
How to ease in
Do not wait for a conventional declaration of love. The romance lives in interruptions, private jokes, and the energy each partner spends disrupting the other’s future.
Heads-up
A quick, non-exhaustive note Includes deception, jealousy, alcohol, divorce-era gender attitudes, and comic manipulation of romantic partners.
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I enjoy the moments when sabotage becomes a form of conversation. They say they want freedom, then use every ounce of invention to remain present in each other’s lives.
— Momo
Credits & versions
- Cast
- Irene Dunne · Cary Grant · Ralph Bellamy
- Screenplay
- Viña Delmar
- Production
- Leo McCarey · Columbia Pictures Corp. of California, Ltd.
- Cinematography
- Joseph Walker
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