Lady Behave! (1937)
7/10
Do you know about tropes?...
6 December 2017
because this film is full of commonly used themes from the 30s yet it turns out to be charming: There is the sister who's the goof-off, whose life is a mess and the older, proper but repressed sister who is called to bail her out. The sister returns the following morning married to a some millionaire after partying, then is sleeping it off under covers that remain unnoticed by a stranger in the room. There are the step-children who think they are smarter than the adults and are still clueless. There is an ex-husband who's sweet, charming, but loves the racehorses more than people. Finally there is the millionaire groom who must have been even more drunk than the bride.

Sally Eilers is part of this and more in this impostor identity romantic comedy with its share of confusion and "no good deed will go unpunished" bits slipping into slapstick now and then, as she tries to protect the reputation of erstwhile sister Patricia Farr. Grant Mitchell plays the meddling - but necessary to explain events - godfather to both women, and Neil Hamilton is the slightly befuddled bridegroom. Joseph Schildkraut is amazing as the pony-loving ex-to Farr, and it's hard to believe this movie was released at nearly the same time as "The Life of Emile Zola" in which Schildkraut gives his unforgettable performance as wrongfully convicted Dreyfus.
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