• Warning: Spoilers
    1940 was the year of marital mix up screwball comedies. such as "My Favorite Wife" and "Too Many Husbands". In the present farce, Ray Milland plays an academic medical researcher(Tim Sterling),who has a serious girlfriend in Marilyn Thomas, but manages to get mixed up in a newspaper-promoted scandal with Loretta Young(as June),stemming from a misplaced 'Just Married' sign on the back of Milland's car, in which Loretta happens to be a passenger. Now, Loretta recently has been much in the news, with her new best seller: "Spinsters Aren't Spinach", which discusses the advantages of women staying single. Thus, it is quite embarrassing for her to apparently suddenly marry a stranger. They are never asked to present a marriage license until near the end.......Loretta and Milland began as enemies, trying to outshout each other on adjacent front desk phones at a hotel. But, when Loretta found out that Milland had a car and was going to NYC, where she needed to go, she threw herself at him, piling her suitcases on top of his. But, their conversation soon revealed that Milland was a male chauvinist, who believed that men were superior in every way. This contrast didn't bode well for a future romantic relationship between the two. Nonetheless, circumstances pushed them in that direction, until they presumably tied the knot for real, as we expected. .....Now that Loretta supposedly was married, her publisher and boyfriend John Pierce (Reginald Gardiner)convinced her to write a book on the advantages for women of marriage! Meanwhile, Milland convinced Marilyn that his 'marriage' to Loretta was a sham for the purpose of promoting her book being written, and to engineer his promotion to full professor, according to the prejudice of the Dean......In the middle section, Milland moves into Loretta's apartment to promote the fiction that they are married. However, Marilyn doesn't know this, and one day announces she will visit Milland. So, he walks on the common balcony to the next apartment, and climbs in the window. He goes back and forth on the balcony(since there are guests in Loretta's apartment), bringing liquor and munchies. Finally, she arrives, he being very fortunate to steer her to this apartment. Eventually, he arranges for Loretta to phone him about an urgent medical case, which induces both to leave just before the real occupants of the apartment arrive.