After having a bad week I decided to try get back into movie viewing. Taking a look at BBC iPlayer,I found a sweet-sounding RKO title about to leave the site,which led to me meeting the vivacious lady.The plot:Going to pick up his partying cousin Keith, botany professor Peter Morgan, Jr. catches a glimpse of nightclub dancer Francey. After knowing each other for just one day,the couple get married. Returning to his upper-class family home,Peter finds Francey to receive a less than warm reception. View on the film:Gliding across the screen, Ginger Rogers gives a bubbly performance as Francey,who is given a smooth Screwball Comedy sass in the snappy dialogue by Rogers. Causing months of delay just four days into shooting, (and Donald Crisp and Fay Bainter being replaced by the very good Charles Coburn and Beulah Bondi.) James Stewart (who got the role thanks to his girlfriend Rogers) gives a breezy performance as Peter Morgan,with Stewart's real-life romance with Rogers coming across in the comedic playful interplay between the couple.Encouraging the care-free atmosphere, director George Stevens & cinematographer Robert De Grasse keep things stylishly glossy,with elegant whip-pans going behind the closed doors of Francey's and Morgan's romance. Playing to the differences in class between the upper-crust Morgan's and the rough & tumble Francey, the screenplay by Ernest Pagano/I.A.R. Wylie/Anne Morrison Chapin and P.J. Wolfson spins easy-going Screwball Comedy one liners with a sweet threading of the romance between Morgan and the vivacious lady.

2 things that I hardly see mentioned 1- James Ellison's portrayal of 'Keith' is worthy of Best Supporting Actor Oscar consideration, The whole timing of all the actors in the film and editing that works w/ the timing is excellent, but Ellison's is perfect. I'm clueless as to why he wasn't cast in more comedies. 2. The cast/ casting the actors couldn't been better suited for their roles and they all are staring performers. Beulah Bondi is perfect. Charles Coburn is Charles Coburn. Franklin Pangborn as the desk clerk is doing what he does best. Willie Best, one of my favorite and I think much underrated actors, works the train scene to perfection. Then you even get a little taste of Jack Carson and Oscar winner, Hattie McDaniel. One of my top five all time sound clips is Ginger Roger's slow, timid, but sexy laugh when Stewart opens the patio door during the cat-fight. She see Coburn and realizes she's done it again. I even recorded it and use it as a ring tone. Definitely one of my top ten from the 'Golden Era'.

Sweet charmer with Ginger and Jimmy captivating as a couple who impulsively marry and then just can't quite seem to tell his parents the news.Ginger was just about at the end of her teaming with Fred Astaire at this point and really coming into her own as a star who could carry a film. She had always made her own films in between her films with Fred but most were cheap quickies, this is a top tier picture with a quality cast and she is very engaging and shares a wonderful chemistry with Jimmy. They were dating during the making of the film and their mutual liking shows on the screen. Charles Coburn is fine in support as Stewart's pushy, dictatorial father but the film is stolen by Beulah Bondi as Jimmy's mother. She's a joy as a woman who has worked out her own system for controlling her husband but manages to have her fun while he's not looking.An under known gem of a picture, well directed with a gentle spirit and super performances by the whole cast.

This is a real favorite of mine. We get to see a young and un-Astaire'd Ginger Rogers film. She doesn't get all the credit though. A stellar cast with jimmy Stewart and Charles Coburn round it out.An Associate Professor goes to NY to find and bring his cousin back home. He finds him in a Dance Club and he refuses to come until the lead girl dancer/singer marries him. He decides to hide from his cousin but it doesn't work out. The Singer immediately has a connection with his cousin and they get married the same day. Now, they both have to go home and tell his overbearing Professor of the University father that they are married. It won't be an easy task.I've never been a big dance/musical fan so it was a real treat to see this early Ginger Rogers comedy. It was one of the first I saw of hers and it still remains one of my favorites. She's very sweet and appealing when she meets Jimmy Stewart but when they get back to his small home town, she has to deal with a girl that "thinks-she's-his-girlfriend". After this, the real Ginger Rogers spunkiness comes out. She's a pistol in this one. There is some dancing in this but it's pretty minimal. Watch Charles Coburn play the stodgy father of Jimmy Stewart. He never falters in these roles and this one is no different. Jimmy Stewart is his usual shy and clumsy self and rarely misses in films he was in. Again, this one is no different.On a side note...towards the end in the train scene, watch for Willie Best as the train porter. He barely says a word but he doesn't have to to make you laugh. For a small part he really does get the most of it. Such a funny moment it had to be mentioned.Just a sweet funny comedy all the way around. Not a bad word to say about this one.