Let's Do It Again

Jane Wyman is stunning and has a gorgeous wardrobe in this melancholy little romantic comedy. There are some beautiful songs and one ridiculous dance number amongst the misunderstandings that lead to a couples' divorce...and possible reconciliation. Local note for me, Seattle gets mentioned several times, but snubbed by this modern artistic New York set...and that is ok by me. The movie begins with Ray Milland who plays the husband having been up all night at some club with a female singer and some friends. He has lied to his wife and been pretending that he was on a trip to Chicago, instead he was in town the whole time and this isn't the first time he has pulled off this charade. His brother is on a mad search across town to find him and get him fake luggage and a gift for his wife that was currier-ed in with a Chicago label, thus helping him maintain this lie with his wife. The wife to teach him a lesson stays out all night with a male friend and makes the story seem more sordid than it really was leading the husband in the worst double standard to file for divorce. As the poor chump from Alaska who starts dating Jane while she is separated from her husband says, I like to think of myself as modern, but I am not THAT modern! For me this is a watch and delete. The cast was great and maybe worth seeing once, but it won't be joining my extensive classic film collection.