......fun with pros:
Ringside Maisie (1941) Ann Southern, George Murphy, Robert Sterling. Our gal gets mixed up in the fight game, a boxer who hates it, his mother and his manager, Murphy. The usual ups and downs but as always, Maisie saves the day. Southern is just darling and spunky is a word made for her Maisie. As an aside, Sterling and Southern were married for 6 years during the 1940s. Good entry into the series. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034110/
No Time For Comedy (1940) Rosalind Russell, James Stewart, Charles Ruggles, Genevieve Tobin. Classic story of a country boy who writes a play, has a great success on Broadway, marries the star, and then.... He is discovered! By a pretentious society woman of little or no talent, who is going to bring out the great playwright in him - her great discovery. The stars have fun with this, and Stewart especially, going from happy-go-lucky guy writing comedies for his famous wife to do, to a demented 'great' man doing the bidding of a silly dolt. All comes right in the end, but for a farce, this has a serious undercurrent. With WWII looming, we had 'serious' and could do with some comedy. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032846/
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