Director Lloyd Corrigan and scenarists Joseph Krumgold and Olive Cooper have created a snappy but predictable little screwball comedy about romance with "Lady Behave!" This modest, black & white movie about mistaken identities obliges its virtuous but uptight heroine to change from a spinster to a married woman when she collaborates with the family attorney to keep her bigamist sister out of jail. While the family lawyer struggles to annul an earlier marriage to keep the impulsive, younger sister out of jail, her older sister masquerades as her sibling to keep her new husband's attorney from filing divorce papers. A divorce would expose Clarice as a bigamist. Complicating the situation is the face that the older sister has never been married, and the prospect of sharing the same bed with a man frightens her. The deception has a better than average chance of succeeding because the attorney believes Paula is the woman who married his client, millionaire Stephen Cormack. This cute, clever, likable romantic comedy has enough of the right turns and twists to make the grade, and Corrigan maintains a fast pace throughout this 70-minute fracas. The cast headed by Sally Eilers, Neil Hamilton, Joseph Schildkraut, and Grant Mitchell is capable, believable, and sympathetic.
Review of Lady Behave!
