George Brent is a tax consultant, and his best man has quit to go into competition with him. His staff is demoralized, but he has hired, sight unseen, an Army colonel who's just being let go. It turns out to be Claudette Colbert. At first he's skeptical, but in a few months she has the office running like clockwork. At first he's concerned she's going to stay with him just long enough to learn the ins and outs, then go into competition. When she disabuses him of that idea, he decides she's going to marry some trust-fund knucklehead. So he works up a gag with old college buddy Robert Young, a trust-funder and field archeologist, to woo her quickly, make her miserable, and leave her convinced that a spinster's life is the one for her.
At this point we have the first date, and it's a very funny one, with smoking frozen drinks, sailors being rolled, a wrestling match, and a fight in a fish market. After that, the plot settles in, with Young and Brent putting in their claims. It becomes standard at that point, but there's enough lingering good will from the first date to carry it on through. Max Baer has a good supporting bit, and Gus Schilling, as a sailor, is as funny as I've ever seen him.
At this point we have the first date, and it's a very funny one, with smoking frozen drinks, sailors being rolled, a wrestling match, and a fight in a fish market. After that, the plot settles in, with Young and Brent putting in their claims. It becomes standard at that point, but there's enough lingering good will from the first date to carry it on through. Max Baer has a good supporting bit, and Gus Schilling, as a sailor, is as funny as I've ever seen him.