Actually, they are married, but due to her job as a doctor, being called in at all hours of the day or night, she decides it is best to have different quarters to sleep in, much to his dismay. He's an actor, so while he does have a night job, he gets to sleep in during the day, that is until it's time to prepare for the curtain. They are Margaret Sullavan and Charles Boyer, the dashing long-suffering lovers of the second version of "Back Street", and they are in a situation that almost seems likely to immediately doom a marriage from being a happy one. This is mostly light romantic comedy (very little screwball involved) that starts off with him pretty much stalking her and her desire to scoot him away, but when it's Charles Boyer who is after you, how are you going to turn HIM down?
Of course on their honeymoon, he immediately lies to her when an old flame (Rita Johnson) contacts him and demands to see him, and he leaves Sullavan, pretending that he's going to help somebody at the local train station deal with a fire. It's just one of the preposterous moments of this film that makes Sullavan decide to move to the 22nd floor of the building rather than share his 17th floor penthouse, leading to some amusing moments involving elevator man Gus Schilling who declares time and time again that he does not interfere in the lives of the people who reside there, even though he listens in to every conversation that they have.
Character players like Eugene Pallette and Reginald Denny pop in and out but have very little to do, and the script struggles to maintain interest in addition to the fact that this is basically a re-tread of the same year's "You Belong to Me" where doctor Barbara Stanwyck and playboy Henry Fonda struggled to make their marriage work because of her schedule and his demands on the desire to be with his wife. Once again, it seems like the woman will be forced to put her career on hold so she can look after her hubby, and that won't hold up in 2018. In fact, considering that both films came out just as World War II was about to break out and women had to have the bulk of domestic careers, I'm sure in a year, this was dated as well, although Hollywood's male chauvinist moguls seemed determined to want to keep the woman as house keeper and the husband as house holder.
Of course on their honeymoon, he immediately lies to her when an old flame (Rita Johnson) contacts him and demands to see him, and he leaves Sullavan, pretending that he's going to help somebody at the local train station deal with a fire. It's just one of the preposterous moments of this film that makes Sullavan decide to move to the 22nd floor of the building rather than share his 17th floor penthouse, leading to some amusing moments involving elevator man Gus Schilling who declares time and time again that he does not interfere in the lives of the people who reside there, even though he listens in to every conversation that they have.
Character players like Eugene Pallette and Reginald Denny pop in and out but have very little to do, and the script struggles to maintain interest in addition to the fact that this is basically a re-tread of the same year's "You Belong to Me" where doctor Barbara Stanwyck and playboy Henry Fonda struggled to make their marriage work because of her schedule and his demands on the desire to be with his wife. Once again, it seems like the woman will be forced to put her career on hold so she can look after her hubby, and that won't hold up in 2018. In fact, considering that both films came out just as World War II was about to break out and women had to have the bulk of domestic careers, I'm sure in a year, this was dated as well, although Hollywood's male chauvinist moguls seemed determined to want to keep the woman as house keeper and the husband as house holder.