A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play.A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play.A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play.
Ernie Adams
- Plumber
- (uncredited)
Jessie Arnold
- Church Committee Member
- (uncredited)
Georgia Backus
- Cashier
- (uncredited)
Don Barclay
- Conventioneer
- (uncredited)
Sammy Blum
- Porter
- (uncredited)
Stanley Brown
- Tommy
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAfter a night at a roadside gas station and motel, Mr. Drake (Fredric March) asks Mrs. Drake (Loretta Young) to pay for her room. She says that she's out of cash, so she'll have to use her credit card. The use of the term credit card in this 1941 movie is curious. The first use of this term is attributed to Edward Bellamy in his 1887 Utopian novel, 'Looking Backward,' but the first real credit card (not to be confused with a single-vendor charge card, issued by department stores, airlines and the like) didn't come along until the Diners Club card was introduced in 1950. However, gas stations were beginning to accept each others' charge cards in the 1930s. Obviously, the names were being used interchangeably even before the likes of Diners Club, Carte Blanche, American Express, and various bank-issued credit cards appeared on the scene.
- Quotes
[last lines, at the end of the play's premiere]
Luke Drake: It's a smash hit, Eddie -- it'll run five years!
Jane Drake: Ladies and gentlemen! This will have the shortest run of any of Mr. Drake's plays...
[gasps from audience]
Luke Drake: No, no, no. Five years!
Jane Drake: It will be closed in the early spring by an act of God. And I'm sure Mr. Drake hopes it will be... a boy.
[Luke faints]
- ConnectionsReferenced in Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
Featured review
Uniformly Stylish, Sometimes Funny
Fredric March is credible as a great playwright. Loretta Young, whom I love, is somewhat less so as his actress wife. Young was indeed a good actress but I don't quite buy her as the toast of Broadway.
The plot is reminiscent of "The Awful Truth." However, if it's difficult to imagine going from Cary Grant to Ralph Bellamy, imagine going from March to Allyn Joslyn! Young's character does it, though.
The Joslyn character is treated no less shabbily than had been (in many movies) the Bellamy. But there is a touch of hostility in it, or so I felt. He is not presented as gay, exactly. But he is a prissy creep.
Joyce Compton, of "The Awful Truth," turns up, as does Robert Benchley. Benchley isn't given much of a part. Of the supporting players, Eve Arden is given the juiciest role. She is delightful.
Everything is right about the production except for one thing: It seems forced. Chic -- but forced.
The plot is reminiscent of "The Awful Truth." However, if it's difficult to imagine going from Cary Grant to Ralph Bellamy, imagine going from March to Allyn Joslyn! Young's character does it, though.
The Joslyn character is treated no less shabbily than had been (in many movies) the Bellamy. But there is a touch of hostility in it, or so I felt. He is not presented as gay, exactly. But he is a prissy creep.
Joyce Compton, of "The Awful Truth," turns up, as does Robert Benchley. Benchley isn't given much of a part. Of the supporting players, Eve Arden is given the juiciest role. She is delightful.
Everything is right about the production except for one thing: It seems forced. Chic -- but forced.
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