The roles usually played by Myrna Loy and William Powell are being played here by Ann Sothern and Melvyn Douglas. Loy, it seems, was busy with war work, and Powell distracted with two films co-starring Hedy Lamarr. But no matter; The same formula that Powell and Loy used for their most recent (and much better) two films ("Love Crazy" and "I Love You Again") is recycled here: A couple on the verge of divorce find that they can't live without each other and scheme to reconcile. Douglas is a war corespondent back in the states and determined to win back Sothern who believes he abandoned her. She is a concert violinist, a member of an all-girl's orchestra conducted by German Felix Bressart, who is frustrated over musicians having marital problems or doing their makeup in rehearsal, a violinist who accidentally pulls off another musician's hairpiece with their bow while rehearsing. You'd think he was the supervisor in a munitions factory! But he's a good-hearted sort who goes out of his way to help reconcile Sothern and Douglas, MGM's answer to the previous decade's George Arliss, and a precursor to their own Lauritz Melchoir and Jose Iturbi who would do the same thing in MGM musicals.
Lightly screwball, it includes Douglas kidnapping Southern, taking her to a lake house in the middle of nowhere, and arranging for one of his romantic rivals to toss a cream pie into the face of another. Finally giving in to Sothern's all-too-forced desire for divorce, he joins the army, which leads to a patriotic finale where Sothern must face her guilt for putting her marriage before the needs of the country. A few well-timed gags save this from mediocrity, and Sothern and Douglas are still likable in spite of the obvious way this predictable plot is going. Then, there's perennial MGM character actor Reginald Owen in one of his typical droll performances, and Bressart has an amusing sequence where he discovers Douglas playing a new instrument he's never seen before called "the Indiana Fiddle", which is actually a little handy invention called a saw.
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