Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
Acting
Colbert's rapid-fire wit vs. Wayne's slow-burn confusion — chemistry through opposition.
Writing
Meta-narrative about adapting novels that somehow becomes the adaptation itself.
Director
Mervyn LeRoy
Claudette Colbert
Kit Madden
John Wayne
Rusty Thomas
Don DeFore
Dink Watson
Anne Triola
Connie Callaghan
Thurston Hall
Henry Baldwin
Frank Puglia
Ortega
Dona Drake
Dolores Ortega
Fernando Alvarado
Mexican Boy
Charles Arnt
Salesman
Louella Parsons
Louella Parsons
Lela Bliss
Bertha Randall (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
Harry Randall (uncredited)
Charles Evans
Philip Jerome (uncredited)
Raymond Burr
Paul Gill (uncredited)
Sam McDaniel
Train Waiter (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Claudette Colbert was 43 playing a character repeatedly called 'young' — Hollywood math in action.
Wayne's casting as the anti-intellectual Marine deliberately subverted his emerging persona; audiences expected him to be right about the book.
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