Helmer Leo McCarey was at his most adroit in this classic screwball comedy (with strong emotional undercurrents) where Cary Grant & Irene Dunne play a marriage-on-the-rocks couple too stubborn to stop their own divorce. The script’s structure is a series of flip-flop embarrassments until they painfully find their way back to each other in a drafty country house, in spite of a black cat who acts as a doorstop. What would their dog Asta think? In McCarey’s world, the pain of separation can be very literal for the guy, but it’s the socially awkward moments that kill, especially when a song like ‘Gone With the Wind’ gets performed.
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