The real life romance of Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard gave inspiration to blokes everywhere who dreamed of punching above their weight (not only was she hot, she was also loaded). But then I guess Meredith had his own sort of charisma, and that reputation-as-a-great-actor thing going on. The duo play a pair of unmarried thieves who wind up at a boarding house; they set about trying to seduce third parties, but both get jealous of the other. The play was from the 1920s but surely this kind of story was old even back then? Not terribly funny or charming - it is fun to hear Meredith and Goddard play together, but I think for it to work you needed Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant.
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