

A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
Acting
Loretta Young's eye-rolls could power a city grid.
Writing
Eddie Turner's progressively sozzled commentary scenes.
Production
The escalating hotel-room invasion choreography.

Director
Alexander Hall
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robert Benchley was already famous for his 'How to Sleep' Oscar-winning short, making his drunk scenes here deliciously meta.
The 'invalid divorce' plot device was comedy catnip in 1941 — Hays Code adultery without moral consequences.
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