This 35mm presentation, part of the ‘Screwball Sundays’ strand at BFI Southbank, is also being shown at the cinema on December 15th. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
A grumpy millionaire (Edward Arnold) throws his wife's coat out the window, and it lands on the shoulders of a humble working girl (Jean Arthur). As her friends accept the symbol over substance, she steps up the social ladder, and eventually into the arms of Arnold's son, Ray Milland. Preston Sturges wrote this Depression-era (1937) twist on the Cinderella story, and it acquires an airy grace from the direction of Mitchell Leisen. With Franklin Pangborn and William Demarest.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is an extract.
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