During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.
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Donald Douglas
- FBI Agent Hardingas FBI Agent Harding
- (as Don Douglas)
David Alison
- Man in Alleyas Man in Alley
- (uncredited)
Sam Ash
- Committee Memberas Committee Member
- (uncredited)
Don Barclay
- Drunkas Drunk
- (uncredited)
Brandon Beach
- Shaving Gagas Shaving Gag
- (uncredited)
Betzi Beaton
- Miss Finchas Miss Finch
- (uncredited)
Edward Biby
- Committee Memberas Committee Member
- (uncredited)
Gladys Blake
- Barmaidas Barmaid
- (uncredited)
Lulu Mae Bohrman
- Secretaryas Secretary
- (uncredited)
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance. —A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
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The romance is stronger than the comedy
This starts unpromisingly (or was I just in the wrong mood?) with slapstick banana-skin-style gags which, however well done, show their age. Jean Arthur looks unassuming compared with her strong-girl tomboyish appearances in the Capra classics. But come Joel McCrea and the burgeoning love (at first resisted) between him and Arthur, and she shows a vulnerability and a range of expression that round out our knowledge of an already well-loved artist.
Charles Coburn, too, after the comic-strip cackhandedness of the first scenes, grows into an enjoyably human old rascal and Joel McCrea, blasé and hardbitten to begin with, develops into a fine romantic hero. The ending (will they, won't they?)recalls the end of the Cary Grant/Irene Dunne classic "The Awful Truth", and if I say that McCrea and Arthur do not pale by comparison, then I could hardly give higher praise than that.
Charles Coburn, too, after the comic-strip cackhandedness of the first scenes, grows into an enjoyably human old rascal and Joel McCrea, blasé and hardbitten to begin with, develops into a fine romantic hero. The ending (will they, won't they?)recalls the end of the Cary Grant/Irene Dunne classic "The Awful Truth", and if I say that McCrea and Arthur do not pale by comparison, then I could hardly give higher praise than that.
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- chriskh
- Apr 13, 2000
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