Carole Lombard

James Stewart

Charles Coburn

Lucile Watson

Eddie Quillan

Alma Kruger

Irving Bacon

Raymond Bailey

Louise Beavers

Ward Bond

Donald Briggs

Harlan Briggs

Lane Chandler

Frederick Chapin

Russ Clark

Monte Collins

James Conaty

Esther Dale

Harry Davenport

Edgar Dearing

Harry Depp

Robert Elliott

Fern Emmett

Betty Farrington

Mary Field

Ruth Gillette

Russell Hopton

Olin Howland

Arthur Hoyt

Victor Kilian Jr.

Tom London

Ethel Marical

Edwin Maxwell

Tom McGuire

James McNamara

Carlyle Moore Jr.

Wilhelmina Morris

Jack Mulhall

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Renee Orsell

Garry Owen

John Picorri

Mickey Rentschler

Cyril Ring

Mildred Shay

Ivan F. Simpson

Milburn Stone

Nella Walker

Ruth Weston

Marjorie Wood

Harry Worth

John Cromwell

Jo Swerling

Rose Franken

David O. Selznick

Leon Shamroy

James E. Newcom

Lyle R. Wheeler

Travis Banton

Eric Stacey

Jack Cosgrove

David Buttolph

Hugo Friedhofer

Oscar Levant

Edward B. Powell

Charles Richards

William Cameron Menzies

Dorothea Holt

Edward G. Boyle

Jack Noyes

Edmund E. Fellegi

Hal C. Kern

Louis Forbes

Lillian K. Deighton

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Made for Each Other

Selznick International Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Jimmy Stewart always could pull off the role as the hapless, dewy-eyed fellow; but in this one - despite actually shedding a tear - he struggles to hold this slightly gloopy melodrama together. He portrays a lawyer who falls in love with and impulsively marries Carole Lombard ("Jane") and they have a baby. Simultaneously, his job prospects take a turn for the worst and they find themselves a bit skint. This puts obvious pressures on their relationship and the film charts their ups and downs. Charles Coburn turns in a good performance as the "Judge" and there's quite a tense sequence with Ward Bond/Eddie Quillan flying in to the rescue at the end. I think sometimes we tend to forget that a lot of these films were little more than production-line efforts; so maybe we expect too much by way of distinctive storylines and/or performances. This one is fine, but forgettable.

English

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