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This is one of my favorite actress Irene Dunne's movies I haven't seen so when someone put it on YouTube, I watched it immediately. While I found it bright and breezy, I kept wondering what a better film it would have been if Leo McCarey had directed it and if Cary Grant had co-starred. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. seems a little lightweight acting opposite Irene Dunne. She carries the whole picture. There are so many famous characters actors in this film, Guy Kibbee for example, who are simply window dressing. Only Jean Dixon stands out. It's not a bad film, just an under-developed one. It's refreshing to see Irene Dunne let go and enjoy herself as her character Maggie embraces the "Joy of Living" for the first time. She seems very natural here, especially in her interactions with "Mike" her chauffeur, maybe how the real day-to-day Irene was. I really liked her rendition of Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields's "Just Let Me Look at You" sung in the back of her limousine. It was warm and heartfelt and not as shrill and high-pitched as many of her movie musical numbers up to that time.