1938 screwball chaos: business, suicide, and somehow still a comedy??
Two business partners are having woman trouble. One wants to marry his secretary and the other is set to marry a wealthy aristocrat. When the partner who wants to marry his secretary lets her go before he proposes to her, the woman confused woman tries to commit suicide by jumping into a river. Complications ensue.
Production
Pre-war British studio craft on a tight 71-minute leash.
Costume
Aristocrat glamour vs. secretary chic, 1938 edition.
Director
René Guissart
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jean Gillie later became a noir femme fatale in 'Decoy' (1946)—quite the career pivot from this fluffy chaos.
This captures the last gasp of British screwball before WWII; the 'suicide as meet-cute' trope vanished almost overnight.
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