Howard Hawks directs John Barrymore, Carole Lombard and Walter Connolly in this pre-code screwball comedy about a cruel Broadway theatre director trying to cast the ingenue he made into a star for one make-or-break production.

I could have taken it or left it until we get on the train and all hell breaks loose. A farce where everyone talks a mile a minute. There isn’t a lot of heart here.

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Perfect Double Bill: My Man Godfrey (1936)

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