This is an inoffensive little comedy about a married couple keeping secrets from one another.Jerry (Cary Grant) and Lucy (Irene Dunne) Warriner decide to get divorced after they discover the other has been keeping secrets. Jerry thinks Lucy is having an affair with her music teacher (Alexander D'arcy). Meanwhile, Lucy catches him lying about spending two weeks in Florida when he really just stayed in town. So they separate, waiting for their divorce to be declared final. Lucy starts dating a terminally boring oil executive (Ralph Bellamy) and Jerry goes out with a society dame (Molly Lamont). But they just can't resist sabotaging the other person's relationship.
It's a cute movie with absolutely no attention paid to any of the issues it raises. This is the lightest of froths, with Jerry and Lucy's relationship woes solely played for laughs. But I'm just going to go ahead and say it: these are horrible people. They don't even attempt to communicate, immediately filing for divorce and joint custody of the dog, over a spat. They date during their separation period, with both getting engaged before the ink is dry. Their new intendeds both seem to be very nice people, whose feelings are callously disregarded by the protagonists. And we're supposed to be happy they get back together.
Cary Grant is always charming but I don't think I've seen many movies starring Irene Dune. She didn't really have much of a personality for me and the whole effort was a bit too slight to really enjoy it.
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