Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

dougdoepke Okay time passer, distinguished by surprising comedic turn by vamp supreme, Lana Turner, not yet the heartless spider woman of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Seems Peggy (Turner) is bored with small town soda fountain work so she secretly moves to NYC. Being a clever opportunist, she schemes her way into impersonating daughter Carol of wealthy father (Brennan) and into a plush life style that she could only dream about. Meanwhile her soda fountain boss Bob (Young) is blamed for her sudden disappearance, loses his job, and wants to track her down to salvage his reputation. The remainder amounts to hijinks surrounding Peggy-Carol's real identity and where she'll end up.There're a number of scattered chuckles, especially in the first part. Turner carries her lightly comedic part in well shaded fashion, without exaggeration. But once the focus shifts to Bob & Peggy-Carol, the humor subsides, mainly because of Young's eye-rolling over-acting that distracts from the various situations. This is doubly odd since actor Young made a notable career of dignified restraint. Then too, the last part stretches out as though to give Young's character more screen time. Nonetheless, the 90-minutes is well-mounted by plush MGM— the ballroom dance, the symphonic hall— along with a cast packed with ace supporting players, such as an unsmiling Brennan, an avuncular Witty, a hard-charging Collins, et al.The premise remains an interesting one. With a tighter last third and a more restrained Young, results would have been more memorable. After all, the moral is a strong one—namely, that family is as much a matter of affection as it is of blood. Anyway, kudos to a skillful Turner, clearly on her way up the MGM ladder.

mark.waltz Someone at MGM must have been working overtime to come up with a wild and wacky screwball comedy which is a breath of fresh air when compared to the many mediocre misfires they made. Other than a few Myrna Loy & William Powell/Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy pairings, MGM's strongest suit was not in comedy, but a few, this included, managed to break that streak.Lana Turner, desperate to get out of her small Hudson River Valley town (which seems to be as crowded as Manhattan) fakes a suicide note and ends up faking amnesia due to a hysterical circumstance beyond her control when she tries to place an advertisement in a New York City newspaper. This leads her to getting involved in an old kidnapping case where she convinces brittle Walter Brennan and his long-time nurse Dame May Witty that she is the long lost daughter that was kidnapped as a child. However, her former boss, Robert Young, recognizes her picture in the newspaper, and having been accused of causing her to apparently commit suicide, follows her to the Big Apple, threatening to reveal all and have her jailed on charges of fraud. This creates more confusion and some wacky situations, resulting in of course, that tried and true MGM plot twist: romance.Turner takes on the type of role that Deanna Durbin was doing over at Universal, playing basically a trouble-maker whose schemes somehow seem to work in her favor and fix everybody's problems. Not known for comedy, Turner proves herself to be quite adept, and it is a shame that for the majority of her next decade at MGM, she was cast mainly in glamorous dramas, obviously considered too much of a lady to slip on banana peels or commit other various pratfalls. Young, adept in both comedy and drama, is also very funny, with portly Eugene Palette in fine support as the newspaper magnate who is determined to find out Turner's identity at any cost. Florence Bates and Almira Sessions have nice bits as well.This is memorable for a sequence where Turner makes a banana split blindfolded, and later when Young goes into a Harold Lloyd bit, almost falling off of a balcony at Symphony Hall. I attribute to the comedy here working because of the presence of a rather forgotten master of the genre, Wesley Ruggles, who sets up the zany plot line, builds up the romance, and ends with a bit of drama that is never cloying.

misctidsandbits This is my opinion of Lana Turner's very best role. I agree that she showed great at comedy, certainly in this. Her most authentic work ...However, she was box office almost immediately, and since the big budget pictures are more often dramas, that's where she went. She remained box office, but to me, was a gag in most of her dramatic roles. She seemed like a tough, enduring type of person, who worked hard at it. She needed to, since in-depth portrayals did not seem to come natural to her. She certainly never seemed very natural in them. Since the public was fascinated with her regardless, she kept showing up.This movie reminded me of a very early Barbara Stanwyck in "The Mad Miss Manton." However, Stanwyck was a gifted actress who shone in dramatic roles.Turner was just a movie star. It really seems, though, that she could have been a gifted comedic actress if they would have let her ... Maybe she was just too good looking.

emdragon This little picture, a fine Wesley Ruggles comedy, struts along with great pace, and has a great cast with Lana Turner, Robert Young, Dame May Witty, and Walter Brennan. The acting is excellent, the antics unusual,and the comedy delightful. But the thing that is way beyond compare in this picture is the bubbling beauty of Lana Turner at her absolute peak. She carries the day with a sublime sort of sparkling charm as she changes personalities several times just to break her tedium with life. No, she never HAD amnesia, and no, she never wanted to commit suicide! But people will talk. Her beautiful sparkle and comedic charm actually made me weak in the knees. Robert Young does a decent job chasing her down the entire film, but it is Turner's film all the way.