Hard to Get (1938)
7/10
Powell & de Havilland go Overboard for Each Other
16 August 2020
Gas station attendant Dick Powell punishes cash-less rich girl Olivia de Havilland, forcing her to scrub floors of the adjoining motel: Yet she's the one who seeks the plot's revenge, pretending to be her rich dad's maid instead of daughter (replaced by real maid Penny Singleton); and Powell's more than a poor man's dreamer, holding a grand idea for a "modernized" gas station...

Long story short, Olivia falls in love after Powell croons "You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby" by moonlight, and then has to get out of the hole she's dug herself involving that lie...

Although this is more a Powell picture than de Havilland; the latter has rarely looked prettier but HE has the lion's share of frantic, slapstick running around, mostly alongside rich dad Charles Winninger (later the poor dad in STATE FAIR).
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