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HIS is the standard M.G.M, '" bread-and-butter picture, with Myrna Loy as the strawberry jam. It is light, amusing, decora-
tive, unimportant stuff. Alexander Korda says that there are only seven film-story plots. This one is an old friend -the triangle adjusted to form a comedy of situation in which Melvyn Douglas woos Myrna Loy by posing as a husband whom she claims exists, but does not. She is the editor of a woman’s magazine for the first two reels and the hypothetical husband is her protection against illfeeling from the suspicious wife of her employer. When Melvyn Douglas at last turns up at the family mansion and is admitted as the long lost husband, the story begins to. gather way towards a conclusion which readers may or may not be able to guess. The formula.is obvious. It is used over and over again-because it is successful. This is good box office material and it is well done, according to the formula. Who blames the dairy farmer for keeping up his deliveries to the factory? Who, then, will blame M.G.M. for keeping up their deliveries? They do it often, but they do it well. The production technique is sound, the stars popular, there’s a joke ever so often, several excellent scenes, and Myrna Loy’s Seer attractive retroussé nose.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 16
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222THIRD FINGER, LEFT HAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 16
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