LUCKY PARTNERS
R.K.
O.
ERE’S a gay little story of a "purely impersonal pre-mar-riage honeymoon" which was quite naturally and inevitably
misunderstood by everyone else. The plot started off in life as Sacha Guitry’s imprudent farce "Bonne Chance," about a middle-aged French gentleman
who shared a winning sweepstake ticket with a little laundress and took her for a pre-marital honeymoon on the proceeds of his half. When Hollywood decided to do it with Ronald Coleman and Ginger Rogers in the leading parts, the naughty French inferences were, of course, ironed out; the laundress became a New York bookseller and the French gentleman a whimsical artist, and the whole thing is as dainty and innocent as a daisy. Ronald Coleman, as the artist, shows a nice touch for comedy, particularly in a courtroom scene where, as counsel for defence, he cross-examines himself as defendant. Coleman is still, however, very much like Ronald Coleman — those graceful gestures, and nonchalant remarks remind one rather sadly of the Prisoner of Zenda and Francois Villon. Ginger Rogers is a different proposition. For one thing she is no longer ginger, but brunette. And she has done few things better than the bewildered young lady who can’t quite get used to the unconventional artist — or the unconventional situations he creates,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 16
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