(Minor Spoilers) This one has both the "Wizard" and "The Wicked Witch" from the Wizard of Oz... Frank Morgan is the husband Henry who is looking for trouble on the side, and somehow gets his wife to agree to a week of separate "adventures". Margaret Hamilton is the maid to his wife Ellen (Genevieve Tobin). According to the trivia on IMDb, this only ran on Broadway for about a month before closing. I'm surprised that it shut down so fast. It has an interesting plot, some intrigue and some snappy lines; i guess it just needed some fixing up that didn't happen. It was also an interesting era in Hollywood, where the Hay's code was just starting to be enforced, so I'm actually surprised that RKO was able to make it into a film, with the less than proper storyline. The story has Henry trying to get a date, but it never seems to work out -- one brings along her husband, one changes her mind and just drives off, which was a little odd, since his friends were also in the car. Ellen, the wife, has her own adventures, and does pretty well with Neil Hamilton, who will play "Commissioner Gordon" in Batman. Also keep an eye out for "Andree"... Marian Nixon. She had started in the silents, did well in the talkies, but seems to have retired from the biz when she married big-shot director William Seiter. Frank Morgan plays his usual stuttering, stumbling character. This one turns into a madcap caper, with the usual whirlwind blow up scene at the end (kind of). It's a pretty good story. An entertaining hour and 15 minutes, with some fun actors.
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