SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Steven Torrey Certainly Grant/Hepburn, Tracy/Hepburn, Hope/Crosby made better screwball comedies and broke the mold. But this is hilarious for its own reasons, not the least of which is Grant's skill with deadpan comedic shtick. And I swear, if Irene Dunn isn't intentionally channeling Katherine Hepburn in a few places--just close your eyes and you can hear Katherine Hepburn through Irene Dunn--well that is just comedic gold.What keeps this from being truly excellent screwball comedy is the dark undertone Gail Patrick brings to her role as the second Mrs. Arden. Gary Grant does not love her in the same he loves the first Mrs. Arden. Their passion for each other comes though while Grants affection for Gail Patrick might best be described as annoyance with her, not affection even before Irene Dunn reappears after seven years absence. Clearly, this is not funny for Gail Partrick, she is the jilted "other woman" to Grant's unintentional bigamy and there is no getting around that dark undertone, despite the inherent comedy. It's sorta of like, in ten years you'll see the comedy, but now endure the pain. But it is a good comedic romp despite all that. Somewhere I read, Gail Patrick expressed the thought she needed a love interest to balance the film but others thought differently. I think Gail Patrick was right. Perhaps a developed love interest with Randolph Scott and her would have changed the undertone. As it is, Randolph Scott is also in love with the first Mrs. Arden (Irene Dunn), after being stranded on an island together for seven years, but love wins out and the first Mrs. Arden and Mr Arden are reunited in holy wedlock. So both Gail Patrick and Randolph Scott end up empty handed.But it is an excellent film for the genre, non-the-less.

Alex da Silva The film starts in a courtroom with lawyer Cary Grant (Nick) getting his 1st wife Irene Dunne (Ellen) pronounced legally dead by Judge Granville Bates. Dunne has been missing for 7 years and it's time for Grant to move on. Specifically, with Gail Patrick (Bianca). The Judge, after painfully dithering about – some people find this funny, I didn't – then agrees to marry Grant and Patrick, and they go off to their honeymoon. But what's this……first wife Irene Dunne returns home! She's not dead. She heads for the honeymoon hotel. What is everyone to do….?The cast are mainly good in this film. Cary Grant spars well with everybody, and especially with hotel clerk Donald MacBride. There are many funny scenes that include Grant's reaction in a hotel lift when he first sees Irene Dunne. He also has an amusing scene with Pedro de Cordoba (Dr Kohlmar) as he rifles through a wardrobe full of ladies clothes, explaining he is doing it for a friend, and "he's waiting outside". There is another amusing set-up with the story of Irene Dunne's male partner on the desert island – hunky Randolph Scott (Burkett). Dunne tries to pass off meek Chester Clute as the man she has innocently spent 7 years with to a knowing Cary Grant.However, whilst, the film is entertaining and is easy to watch, it peters out at the end once the action moves to the mountain home. It gets sentimental and silly, and the film could have been resolved in a far more satisfactory manner. We are left with a few questions regarding the plot, such as what has Gail Patrick done to deserve what has just happened? Is Randolph Scott a complete carrot-eating moron? And Irene Dunne is actually pretty awful considering that she is meant to love Cary Grant. The children are a bit irritating and Irene Dunne has an annoying episode where she puts on a Southern accent, but, despite all of that, this is a fun film.

williwaw Irene Dunne was gloriously beautiful and funny beyond measure in this great RKO film where Irene was Queen of the Lot over such equally grand ladies such as Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, and Lucille Ball. What women!Irene Dunne is ultimate screwball comedienne and I am just amazed, shocked and baffled why the Academy never honored Irene Dunne with an Honorary Oscar. Doesn't a career that comprises of Show Boat, Love Affair, The Awful Truth, I Remember Mama, A Guy Named Joe, et al and this splendid film entitle a Star to an Oscar???I loved this movie slyly directed by Garson Kanin ( who wrote that tell all book about Tracy and Hepburn that ruined the friendship of Kate Hepburn and Garson and Ruth Kanin as Kate felt he betrayed confidences). The look in Cary Grant's eye when Cary sees Randy Scott perform acrobats off the Diving Board!! Sly,Sly Kanin. Wasn't he hinting more to the point re Grant and Scott??Great old fashioned movie with fantastic photography in black and white and the set decoration. If only we could all live that well!I rate this movie a 9 and salute Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randy Scott, Gail Patrick, Leo McCarey, and Garson Kanin for a great adult film.

jc-osms I played this to myself on a long flight back from a winter sun holiday and the near 90 minutes it took up simply (pardon the pun) flew by. I love the screwball comedy "genre" and will be endeavouring this Christmas holiday to seek out as many examples as I can, but I doubt many of them will beat this Leo McCarey production directed by young hot-shot (at the time) Garson Kanin.The premise is as daffy as you would expect but boy do Cary Grant (at his effortless best) and one of his most supreme comic foils Irene Dunne run with it.I laughed out loud many times in the first thirty minutes and anxiously looked at my watch wondering where the story and laughs were going to come for the next 60 minutes but it just kicked on with Dunne's hilarious attempt to hoodwink Grant as to the hunkiness (or lack of same) of her seven year companion on their desert island and the easy introduction of Randolph Scott as the All-American athlete she actually hunkered down with.The timing of all concerned, particularly the leads of course, is near perfect throughout, the comedic situations hilarious (bookended by a courtroom scene with a great turn by Granville Bates as an incredulous judge - an idea so good that Peter Bogdanovich lifted it almost wholesale for his 1972 homage "What's Up Doc") and climaxing in a homage of its own to the one that started it all, the famous "Walls Of Jericho" scene in Gable & Goddard's "It Happened One Night" and of course its own Grant / Dunne predecessor "The Awful Truth".I keep coming back to Grant and Dunne as the keystones to the film's success. Both separately (Grant in his interplay with the hotel manager during extended avoidance of new, wholly undeserving bride Gail Patrick, perhaps the only actor in the film who fails to catch the arch mood of the piece) and Dunne (when she affects accents of contemporaries Hepburn and Davis to devastating comic effect) but especially together - these two play off each other to the manner born.Even the scenes with their kids don't grate, there's admirably little recourse to the use of traditional slapstick and the way this sex-farce pushes the envelope out at the censor (especially Grant's preening himself with women's clothing and that ending when you know he's about to become literally "Bad Santa") just takes the biscuit.A sheer delight, from start to finish.