It's Love I'm After

It's Love I'm After

1937
Romance, Comedy
1h 30m
Basil Underwood and Joyce Arden have postponed their marriage eleven times. Henry Grant's fiancée Marcia is infatuated with Basil. At Henry's request Basil acts boorishly so as to kill the infatuation, but it doesn't work and Marcia breaks her engagement with Henry. With Marcia about to announce her intentions vis-a-vis Basil, Joyce shows her pictures of children, apparently Basil's. Marcia goes back to Henry and Joyce decides she'd better tie Basil down soon. (imdb)
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It's Love I'm After

1937
Romance, Comedy
1h 30m
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Rated 18 Jul 2010
71
50th
A daffy screwball comedy that gains added oomph by providing Howard and Davis with a holiday from "serious" acting. Portraying a battling theatrical couple who never quite make it to the altar, the stars act with brio even though the screenplay is deficient of bright one-liners.
Rated 06 Oct 2015
77
51st
Fun and pretty funny screwball comedy. Davis, Howard and de Havilland aren't exactly the leads you'd expect in this kind of film, but they do the banter well and have good chemistry when they're arguing. My only real problem with the film is that it doesn't do more. More jokes, a quicker pace, more plot points, maybe a bit more depth. It all feels kind of slight and the leads, good actors though they are, don't give the dialogue enough extra life to make up for that.
Rated 18 Dec 2013
70
96th
Oh, actors and their high egos and self-created drama! Leslie Howard all up in the air with a furious love affair with fellow stage performer Bette Davis. It's so deliberately over the top that it becomes wonderful. The downside is that this is mostly a one-trick pony. The entire comedy is based on the over-acting. The best thing of all was Eric Blore as Howard's personal servant. A very affectionate male servant! Adoring his master so much that he knows all his plays by heart.
Rated 30 May 2020
85
59th
Viewed May 29, 2020.
Rated 11 Jul 2012
86
93rd
It's a shame that this film is never mentioned when the list of great screwball comedies is being compiled. Howard and Davis have excellent comedic timing, and De Havilland is perky without being overly saccharine. But the real star of this film is Eric Blore, who steals almost every scene he is in.
Rated 18 Jul 2010
25
43rd
Amusing romantic farce which has worn rather less well than might have been expected but does present two stars at their peak.
Rated 11 Oct 2022
65
58th
Pauline Kael calls this "pleasantly bad"--the script is full of creaky old conventions, but it's well constructed. Davis playing Juliet is divinely implausible, and she's marvelous in the last act, with flashes of her future Margo Channing. I have never understood Leslie Howard's supposed appeal as a leading man, at least in American movies...he always reminds me of an especially fey, British (pardon the redundancy) Dick Cavett. He's less irritating in comedy, and he and Davis spar satisfyingly.
Rated 02 Dec 2022
82
70th
Somos do amor estreava há 85 anos na França. Me surpreendi desse filme não ser mais famoso, é uma comédia screwball com um elenco delicioso no topo da forma, todo mundo está maravilhosamente engraçado aqui, Howard zoando seu passado de ator shakespeariano clássico, Davis com sua usual agudeza, Havilland chega a ser a mais engraçada por seu deslumbramento de fã e Knowles fazendo um tipo Errol Flynn só que mauricinho. Um deleite. DVD OP.
Rated 01 May 2023
4
16th
Rather weak comedy aims for a chaotic, laugh-a-minute tone but casts stars whose strengths are decidedly not in screwball. Howard and de Havilland try their best but are defeated by a script that just isn't very funny and - worst of all - Bette Davis, who can salvage just about anything, is barely in the thing. Eric Blore comes off best, with some funny moments as narcissistic actor Howard's devoted manservant.

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