A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.
Direction
The Lubitsch Touch: doors closing, implications blooming, hilarity never explained.
Acting
Burgess Meredith's Sebastian: sweaty, pseudo-intellectual, hilariously repellent.
Writing
Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart — wit sharper than a psychoanalyst's pen.
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Merle Oberon
Jill Baker
Melvyn Douglas
Larry Baker
Burgess Meredith
Alexander Sebastian
Alan Mowbray
Doctor Vengard
Olive Blakeney
Margie Stallings
Harry Davenport
Jones
Sig Ruman
Kafka (as Sig Rumann)
Eve Arden
Sally Aikens
Richard Carle
Albert
Mary Currier
Maid (uncredited)
Jean Fenwick
Dr. Vengard's Nurse (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Woman in Ladies' Room (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Burgess Meredith based his Sebastian on a real analyst he found insufferable; Lubitsch reportedly howled at dailies.
Released months before Pearl Harbor, this was Lubitsch's last pure comedy before wartime darkness consumed his work. The 'comedy of remarriage' structure — divorced lovers reuniting — bypassed Hays Code restrictions on adultery by making them technically single.
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