Dodie Smith is best known today for her book 101 Dalmatians, but before then she was highly successful with many other sorts of stories, including this comedy. It’s hard to see why it was so popular, to be honest – the plot is extremely thin. It’s about one day in the life of a family – the father is an accountant who is flirted with by an actor, the mother is flirted with by a man who mistakes her for someone else, the daughter has fallen in love with an artist who she is posing for even though he’s older. The leads are played by Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne who I didn’t find as irritating here – Lunt seems to have better control over their voice. They do a lot of business in their talks together – overlapping dialogue, hesitation to make it seem natural – I know what they were getting at but it doesn’t quite work.
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