A woman insists to her new husband that they must remain celibate for the first three months of their marriage, which he tries desperately to get around.A woman insists to her new husband that they must remain celibate for the first three months of their marriage, which he tries desperately to get around.A woman insists to her new husband that they must remain celibate for the first three months of their marriage, which he tries desperately to get around.
Leona Maricle
- Ruth Howland
- (as Leona Maride)
Chester Clute
- Bit Part
- (uncredited)
Hal K. Dawson
- Bit Part
- (uncredited)
Edward Earle
- Bit Part
- (uncredited)
Richard Fiske
- Ship officer
- (uncredited)
M.J. Frankovich
- Bit Part
- (uncredited)
Edward Gargan
- Police Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAuthor F. Scott Fitzgerald was among the people at the premiere in Los Angeles. This was the last movie he ever saw, as he died of a heart attack the very next day.
- Quotes
Ruth Howland: Your honor, my husband is a psychiatrist. All of his patients are crazy. He spends most of his time trying to keep nuts from making faces at each other. He began to handle me with the same effect.
Tom Howland: That's a lie.
- ConnectionsRemake of This Thing Called Love (1929)
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I'm a Melvyn Douglas fan, but have to admit this isn't one of his best comedies...though this still doesn't mean it's not worth seeing!
Celibate three months
ann and tice(?)
trial marriage
fruend tekks him to accept
she proposes 3 months
gordon--other suitor
NOT quetzelcoatl
painful dinner party scene--bad
often folks' beahaviors are difficult to understand--suck as strippng miss campbell--tries too hard
Ann (Rosalind Russell) is a rich and successful business woman who wants to get married but is afraid to really commit since she's seen other marriages fail. So, she comes up with a novel idea...to marry a man in name only....or at least for three months. That way if they don't get along they can just go their separate ways. Well, it's not surprising that her boyfriend, Tice (Melvyn Douglas) isn't thrilled with this arrangement, but his friend convinces him to just go along with her and once married she'll abandon this dopey scheme. Well, not surprisingly, it doesn't go how either of them planned.
This film's weakest point is the script. The actors are quite nice but a few times they're made to repeat a few silly lines and the dinner party scene, in particular, is pretty bad. But fortunately, the good far outweighs the bad and overall it's well worth seeing even if it isn't one of Douglas' best.
Ann (Rosalind Russell) is a rich and successful business woman who wants to get married but is afraid to really commit since she's seen other marriages fail. So, she comes up with a novel idea...to marry a man in name only....or at least for three months. That way if they don't get along they can just go their separate ways. Well, it's not surprising that her boyfriend, Tice (Melvyn Douglas) isn't thrilled with this arrangement, but his friend convinces him to just go along with her and once married she'll abandon this dopey scheme. Well, not surprisingly, it doesn't go how either of them planned.
This film's weakest point is the script. The actors are quite nice but a few times they're made to repeat a few silly lines and the dinner party scene, in particular, is pretty bad. But fortunately, the good far outweighs the bad and overall it's well worth seeing even if it isn't one of Douglas' best.
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- planktonrules
- Feb 8, 2018
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- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was This Thing Called Love (1940) officially released in Canada in English?
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