All ends well, despite Dulcy's efforts, and perhaps some of you will find this a pleasant diversion. Today we no longer find funny folks who are not that bright and who seem to glide through life oblivious to their situation. The material has the actresses in the lead playing as if they were actually dumb - not just clever and using being dumb as a technique to get their way. There are clever written gags and lots of physical comedy. Ann Sothern is a good actress but the material just does not seem quite as funny as it obviously must have decades ago. The story's premise is that a scatterbrained young woman tries to turn a weekend social event into a business opportunity for her fiancé. I just did not think this was a slap on the leg comedy that aged well for viewers the 21st Century. Dulcy must have been a real hit on the stage and I would expect that the Gracie Allen version was a hoot. A CD version is available featuring Zazu Pitts in a 1935 radio broadcast and you can pull down off the internet a 1937 radio version with Gracie Allen. 2 appears under the title "Not So Dumb" in 1930 and features Marion Davies (directed by King Vidor). A silent featuring Constance Talmadge appeared in 1923. Kaufman and Marc Connelly was made by MGM into a film. This is at least the third time that the stage play "Dulcy" by George S. This isn't one of the better screwball comedies, but there's a lot still to enjoy. The veteran supporting cast does their best to match her, but her energy is matchless. This is a wild and wacky minor comedy meant to take "Maisie" into a new direction, and Sothern is worth her weight in gold. Sothern's attempts at rescuing those who are victims of her accidental antics usually result in them nearly drowning or ending up conked on the head by something or nearly falling over a balcony. Hunter is an inventor trying to get through a relaxing vacation, and it is lucky that he doesn't die of pneumonia because of her antics in getting him across the lake. Among her victims are brother Dan Dailey (getting a cold shower when she blows up the boiler), pilot Reginald Gardiner, butler Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, fiancee Ian Hunter and wealthy couple Roland Young and Billie Burke. The writers go overboard with her antics, but Sothern makes her character completely amusing. The talents of Ann Sothern are used for this wacky screwball comedy that rivals Carole Lombard in "My Man Godfrey", Katharine Hepburn in "Bring Up Baby" and Constance Bennett in "Merrilly We Live" for dizzy heiresses unknowingly causing destruction. Accident prone is one thing, but taking others down with you isn't the way most people want to go. She's also the type of wealthy woman whose antics cause the servants to quit, fish to move to the lower depths of the lake when she goes sailing, pedestrians to turn around and walk the other way when they see her coming and business men think of jumping out the window even though there's been no market crash.
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