Banker Ray Milland has a ditzy wife in Betty Field, but they adore each other. However, when Milland's old friends return to town, they include his old flame, Patricia Morison, and they way Milland and she behave makes Miss Field think she's about to lose her husband.
It's based on Isabel Scott Rorick's book MR. AND MRS. CUGAT; Xavier Cugat forced Paramount to change the movie's title, and then got some cash out of the company for retaining the names for the characters. There are plenty of amusing bits in the movie, aided by a cast that includes Eugene Pallette, Charles Dingle, Richard Haydn, and Ann Revere as the snippy and foreboding housemaid. If you think that there's something familiar about Miss Field's character, that's because the book was also the source of the radio show MY FAVORITE HUSBAND starring Lucille Ball and Richard Denning; the show was further adapted as the basis for I LOVE LUCY. I wonder if Miss Rorick got royalties from Desilu.
It's based on Isabel Scott Rorick's book MR. AND MRS. CUGAT; Xavier Cugat forced Paramount to change the movie's title, and then got some cash out of the company for retaining the names for the characters. There are plenty of amusing bits in the movie, aided by a cast that includes Eugene Pallette, Charles Dingle, Richard Haydn, and Ann Revere as the snippy and foreboding housemaid. If you think that there's something familiar about Miss Field's character, that's because the book was also the source of the radio show MY FAVORITE HUSBAND starring Lucille Ball and Richard Denning; the show was further adapted as the basis for I LOVE LUCY. I wonder if Miss Rorick got royalties from Desilu.