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
Fredric March
Luke Drake
Loretta Young
Jane Drake
Robert Benchley
Eddie Turner
Allyn Joslyn
William Dudley
Eve Arden
Virginia Cole
Helen Westley
Emma Harper
Joyce Compton
Beulah
Tim Ryan
Mac
Olaf Hytten
Alfred
Dorothy Adams
Betsy
Clarence Kolb
Collins
Andrew Tombes
Pierce
Spencer Charters
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
James Flavin
Hotel Guest in Room 625 (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
First Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
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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