Academy Awards, USA 1942
| Nominee Oscar | Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons Randall Duell Edwin B. Willis |
MGM
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
Novelist Joan Crawford is having an affair with her married publicist Herbert Marshall. She also spends quite a bit of time with Robert Taylor in the local nightclubs, but refuses to admit it is anything serious. Taylor wants to marry her, and when he finds out about Marshall he concocts a plan to set them up with the unwitting help of Marshall's wife. They show up unannounced at a summer cottage of a mutual friend, where he knows Crawford and Marshall are visiting. He gets Marshall away on a wild goose chase, leaving his wife and his lover alone, neither knowing the other's identity. It doesn't go well. The whole plot feels like a gimmick, and Crawford's rationalizations are naive at best. Worse yet, she has no chemistry with the older Marshall, without which the whole premise collapses.
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