SILVER

After six years of secretly pining away for her department-store tycoon boss (Melvyn Douglas), his über-effective secretary (Claudette Colbert) makes her play, resulting in a speedy matrimony. But can their domestic dynamic match the fail-safe work one they've established? His homelife is, after all, in total disarray, made up of ineffectual servants, an overbearing sister and a discipline-deprived nine-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. With touches of his famous screwball comedies, Gregory La Cava keeps the fast-talking banter apace throughout, with a firecracker Colbert more than the match for Douglas' drippy businessman, who may not have been worthy of her turning down a livelier suitor and job offer in Paris. DIR/PROD Gregory La Cava; SCR Sidney Buchman. U.S., 1935, b&w, 85 min. NOT RATED

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