Jean Arthur shines in this brilliant screwball comedy from 1937. Preston Sturges wrote the brilliantly funny screenplay and Mitchell Leisen directed. All the jewelry and furs Arthur wears in the film are REAL. They had to have security guards posted on the set!



The premise; excitable Wall Street banker, Edward Arnold has a fight with his wife and throws her new fur coat down from the top of their 5th Avenue mansion. What happens to the person it lands on is the story (poor Jean Arthur going to work sitting on the top of an open-air bus).



Brilliant performances from all; Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, Esther Dale, Franklin Pangborn, Luis Albeti and others are letter-perfect.



Many wild comedies of the 1930's are grouped in as being 'Screwball'. This one IS screwball and Sturges practically invented the artform.



Now...if some of Arthur's other great films would be released; "If You Could Only Cook", "The Devil and Miss Jones", "The Whole Town's Talking".



This is absolutely a must-have.



Also released with this brilliant comedy are three other must-haves; "The Major and The Minor", "Midnight" and "She Done Him Wrong".



By the way, the other reviewer had it wrong; from 1935 through 1944, Arthur had an exclusive contract with Columbia Pictures and many of her best movies were done as loan-outs. She did not have a 'non-exclusive' contract.