Before Hitchcock left for America he expressed a wish to work with Carole Lombard. A year later she had a comedy already in production at RKO and offered it to the Englishman. And so the Master of Suspense met the Queen of Screwball.
Lombard and Robert Montgomery discover three years after their wedding that they are not married after all. And she decides she wants to be single again and play the field.
So, pure screwball, and the star is on the more familiar ground. She's as great as ever, and Jack Carson also scores in a familiar supporting role as an amiable klutz.
It's a good comedy with a few genuine laughs but I suspect even a film student would struggle to detect the hand of the Master in this. Maybe the brief disorientated point of view shot on an out of control fairground ride, might be claimed as a Hitchcock touch. It has a lot of his understated humour, but this is foremost a vehicle for the frantic comic persona of the wonderful Ms. Lombard.