Wife #1 wants ex-husband to catch second wife being unfaithful.Wife #1 wants ex-husband to catch second wife being unfaithful.Wife #1 wants ex-husband to catch second wife being unfaithful.
Bill Elliott
- Teddy
- (as Gordon Elliott)
John J. Richardson
- Baggage Man
- (scenes deleted)
Carlyle Blackwell Jr.
- Young Barkley
- (uncredited)
Jane Buckingham
- Mrs. Burns
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaRalph Forbes ("Ralph Summers") and George Brent ("Bob McNear") had an interesting thing in common: they were both married to actress Ruth Chatterton; Ralph from 1924 to 1932, and George from 1932 to 1934.
- GoofsThe collar on Bob's coat is up an down between shots when Georgiana tells him and Betty they will have to spend the night.
- Quotes
Betty: Suppose that man hadn't stopped us and we'd gone there and gotten smallpox...
Bob McNear: Ahh, that would've been fine. Then you could've gone home and given it to your husband. I'd give it to him myself if I wasn't vaccinated.
- SoundtracksAbout a Quarter to Nine
(1935) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Played as dance music in the beach casino
Featured review
A sparkling romantic comedy...
... And a shining example of how to do precode in the production code era. Georgiana (Kay Francis) is vacationing at a seaside resort. She accidentally overhears Bob McNear (George Brent) and Betty (Genevieve Tobin) planning a rendezvous. It's actually Betty planning one, as she wants to get one over on her husband. She's in love with the idea, not with Bob. Georgiana is amused by this conversation but doesn't think anything more of it since she doesn't know these people until she later runs into her ex-husband, Ralph (Ralph Forbes), in the resort ballroom that night. He is happy to see her, says he regrets divorcing her two years before, and points out his current wife, across the room, who broke up the marriage. It turns out that this current wife is Betty!
So Georgiana gets an idea. She will fix it so that Betty and Bob wind up in the same place that her ex-husband Ralph does, showing Betty up for what she is, and thus getting Ralph back. Like Betty, she is in love with the idea not the man. How she goes about arranging this is very creative and funny.
So, this movie might have been less fun with Georgiana the only one in the complete know for the entire film, so a couple of jewel thieves are inserted into all of this who also wind up at Betty and Bob's destination, with Georgiana having no idea who they are and what they are doing there. Meanwhile Bob and Georgiana, previously just mildly infatuated, begin to develop real feelings for one another.
So many romantic comedies did everything wrong when their wings were clipped by the production code. This one is almost perfect by being genuinely funny and implying things right up to the edge of what was allowed at the time. The cast is perfect. Brent and Francis always had great chemistry, Tobin is delightfully wicked in a harmless kind of way if that is possible, Forbes is clueless as Georgiana's first husband - a real stuffed shirt, and honorable mention has to go to William Austin in a very small but memorable role as Ralph's brother. He manages to be, in every way possible, a completely unappealing man. I'd highly recommend this one.
So Georgiana gets an idea. She will fix it so that Betty and Bob wind up in the same place that her ex-husband Ralph does, showing Betty up for what she is, and thus getting Ralph back. Like Betty, she is in love with the idea not the man. How she goes about arranging this is very creative and funny.
So, this movie might have been less fun with Georgiana the only one in the complete know for the entire film, so a couple of jewel thieves are inserted into all of this who also wind up at Betty and Bob's destination, with Georgiana having no idea who they are and what they are doing there. Meanwhile Bob and Georgiana, previously just mildly infatuated, begin to develop real feelings for one another.
So many romantic comedies did everything wrong when their wings were clipped by the production code. This one is almost perfect by being genuinely funny and implying things right up to the edge of what was allowed at the time. The cast is perfect. Brent and Francis always had great chemistry, Tobin is delightfully wicked in a harmless kind of way if that is possible, Forbes is clueless as Georgiana's first husband - a real stuffed shirt, and honorable mention has to go to William Austin in a very small but memorable role as Ralph's brother. He manages to be, in every way possible, a completely unappealing man. I'd highly recommend this one.
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- Aug 12, 2021
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
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By what name was The Goose and the Gander (1935) officially released in Canada in English?
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