Joel McCrea

Nancy Kelly

Mary Boland

Cesar Romero

Roland Young

Mary Healy

Lyle Talbot

Elisha Cook Jr.

Barnett Parker

Harry Hayden

Charles C. Wilson

Charles D. Brown

Spencer Charters

William Edmunds

Leyland Hodgson

Brooks Benedict

James Carlisle

James Conaty

Eddie Dunn

David Durand

Sam Hayes

Harold Miller

Bert Moorhouse

Hattie Noel

Mel Ruick

Larry Steers

Amzie Strickland

Allen Wood

Leonard Kibrick

Roy Del Ruth

John O'Hara

Lynn Starling

Sam Hellman

Scott Darling

Darrell Ware

Erna Lazarus

He Married His Wife

20th Century Fox

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This might have played out better had there not been a glaring inevitability to the denouement right from the start! Racehorse owner "Randall" (Joel McCrea) and ex-wife "Valerie" (Nancy Kelly) are having a dance when the cops show up and arrest him for non-payment of alimony. It's only a short term glitch, but sets the scene for a film that sees him desperate for her to marry again and get her hands out of his wallet! To that end he has the support of his lawyer "Carter" (Roland Young) and to be fair to "Valerie", she has no shortage of suitors. The more they try to fix her up, though, the more things seem to go wrong with their (not so) cunning plans. "Freddie" (Cesar Romero) and "Paul" (Lyle Talbot) seem to be the front runners as we head into the home straight and that's where predicability swoops in and well, there you have it. For much of this, Kelly reminded me of Barbara Stanwyck but if only. She rather meanders through the film adding little by way of chemistry with any of her would-be beaus while McCrea just doesn't come across as if he's enjoying one bit of this lightly comedic affair. It's a fun premiss but executed indifferently.

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