GUEST WIFE
(United Artists)
HE title here is at least more informative than most. It indicates, correctly, a marital mixup, and all one really needs to
say by way of elaboration is that Claudette Colbert is the wife, "loaned" by her husband, a good-natured sap (Richard Foran, once known, before he entered society dramas, as plain Dick Foran, a singing cowboy) to his best friend, a conceited foreign correspondent (Don Ameche) in order that the newspaperman may be able to sustain the deception of his boss, who has been led to believe ‘that his star employee is happily married. Claudette Colbert has a way of making the best of a feather-weight situation; and thanks to her alone the film is sometimes amusing. But in this’ day and age a bedroom farce needs some particularly clever twist in the plot, or some specially brilliant quality in the direction, to make it something more than just another bedroom farce. Mere competence, such as is found in Guest Wife, is not enough.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 351, 15 March 1946, Page 19
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169GUEST WIFE New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 351, 15 March 1946, Page 19
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