A bookish historian is married to a steely Southern belle who raises horses, an animal that he doesn't care for. However, the cute young neighbor girl doesn't feel that way about him and makes no bones about letting him know it.
Rich and beautiful Southern heiress Sally Warren loves horse-racing and running her horse-farm although her husband of seven years hates the four-legged mammals. Spouse Jeff Warren is a successful author, Civil War scholar, and popular lecturer on the ladies club circuit. After Jeff buys aging twelve-year old nag Albert in the mistaken belief that he's a colt, and Sally purchases a desk for her husband in the naive belief that it once belonged to Jefferson Davis, it's obvious that they have few interests in common. The squabbling is complicated by Jeff's jealousy of Sally's relationship with Lance Gale, her childhood friend, neighbor, and fellow horse breeder. Sally in turn becomes enraged when the ubiquitous Mary Lou Medford, a flirtatious literary groupie, becomes omnipresent with her infatuation of Jeff. Although the strains on their relationship lands the couple in divorce court, circumstances and an equine cupid bring them back together again.
Written by duke1029@aol.com
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
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Quotes
Mary Lou Medford:
[Condescendingly]
I do hope you'll come over often now that we're to be neighbors. Sally Warren:
[Cattily]
Why how nice of you! I'll be sure to... particularly as we have so much in common. Mary Lou Medford:
In common? Sally Warren:
Yes.
[She laughs at the joke she's about to make]
Sally Warren:
Your future and my past.
[She leaves]
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Soundtracks
"Jingle Bell' ("
One Horse Open Sleigh") (uncredited) Written by James Lord Pierpont (1857) Instrumental version incorporated into soundtrack during Christmas sequence.
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