IT’S A SERIOUS PROBLEM FOR A LADY WITH THE HICCUPS, AND HE IS IT!

Jill Baker (Merle Oberon), who’s married to an insurance executive (Melvyn Douglas), goes to a psychoanalyst to see if he can cure her hiccups; she soon starts questioning her marriage. Ernst Lubitsch made this attractive but unremarkable comedy in between two much greater films, a remake of a silent picture he made in 1925, Kiss Me Again. It’s a pretty contrived story about a self-centered pianist (Burgess Meredith) who comes between a man and his bored wife. Terrific leads and it’s a good example of the Lubitsch touch, with sharp dialogue and classy sets where men and women play games.

1941-U.S. 84 min. B/W. Produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Play: Victorien Sardou, Emile de Najac (”Divorçons”). Music: Werner R. Heymann. Cast: Merle Oberon (Jill Baker), Melvyn Douglas (Larry Baker), Burgess Meredith (Alexander Sebastian), Alan Mowbray, Olive Blakeney, Harry Davenport… Sig Ruman, Eve Arden.

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