William A. Wellman directs Carole Lombard, Fredric March and Charles Winninger in this early Technicolor screwball comedy.

Glamorous comedy actress Lombard is grand here as the small town gal who fakes terminal radium poisoning to win a trip to New York. March less so as the journalist whose career relies on him finding a Real McCoy after a series of phonies… only to fall for his latest fake cause célèbre. There’s a tsunami of jokes here but none of them really find land in this dated package.

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Perfect Double Bill: Beautiful But Dangerous (1954)

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