Bad dialogue comes in many forms...pretentious, preachy, melodramatic, cliche, overly expositional, to name just a few...but perhaps the most dispiriting is movie or stage writing which aims at Noel Coward but falls considerably short, say half ass Philip Barry. Such is the fate of scenarist John Van Druten in this wan, arid comedy. As for Anna Lee, who I'm happy to report went on to better things under the tutelage of John Ford and Joseph L Mankewiecz she is, in this, her first film, considerably in over her pretty head essaying a role that in an ideal world would have gone to Jean Arthur. With a screenplay by Anita Loos. And direction by George Cukor. Colman I wouldn't mess with.
Review of My Life with Caroline
