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...Denver, Colorado Attorney General Gail Ireland ruled that before being condemned to death a vicious dog was entitled to trial by jury...
...with Ray Milland (a psychologist) leading Loretta Young (a bachelor girl) to the altar, the problem is to provide enough comedy antics to keep the customers awake until the wedding. Cinemactor Milland and the dummy head ("Chester") which he uses for his researches provide some of them. Gail Patrick (the girl Milland jilts) and Edmund Gwenn (the butler in The Earl of Chicago) provide some more. So does the technical chatter of some eminent psychologists. Observers are likely to be delighted when the romp is over...
Most rational people would have got out of the mess in two minutes. But nobody in My Favorite Wife is rational. The result is 90 minutes of delightfully irrational comedy. Again Gail Patrick gets jilted. So does Randolph Scott, possibly the only actor in Hollywood who can be dignified and plausible at the same time while confessing that he spent seven years alone on a desert island with Irene Dunne without ever giving the Hays office a bad moment...
...limp, but it pulls itself together in scenes like those in which Gary Grant scampers between his wives' hotel rooms pursued by the distrustful but admiring clerk (Donald McBride); or gets caught in his wife's hat and dress by a suspicious psychologist; or tears around in Gail Patrick's leopard-spot dressing gown. And there is Granville Bates's first-rate bit as a dumb, irate, fuddyduddy judge who, having declared Irene Dunne legally dead, declares her legally alive so he can hold her in contempt of court...
When every military plane young Mechanic Tommy Grayson (Gordon Oliver) works on crashes, G-men arrest him on the day he is to be married to Show Girl Gail (Arleen Whelan), force the plant to close. Tommy's father, mild-eyed, poker-faced Major Grayson ( Charles Grapewin), native as a corn shuck, sets out to prove him innocent. By such slightly off-the-record stunts as burglarizing the plane factory and carrying off Tommy's gauges to check, breaking into a neighbor's house and rifling his closet, the Major sleuths out a sabotage gang, finds most...