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Percy Kilbride and Marjorie Main, as decayed neighbors, are worked for a good deal of the great deal they are worth. The plot also bears down hard on MacMurray's interest (invented for the screen) in a rich lady farmer (Louise Allbritton) who drives a station wagon. It ends, happily, as soon as Miss Colbert has battled nature just long & hard enough to harvest her first baby...
...Diego, I Love You (Universal), a cheerfully goofy little picture about a bad inventor who made good, is almost as funny as it is foolish. Much of it involves the efforts of lush Louise Allbritton to sell Father Edward Everett Horton's improved life-raft to Executive Jon Hall, "the most girl-shy millionaire in Who's Who." In the course of convincing him that she loves him for himself alone, she leads Mr. Hall through some unusually footloose footage. She gets him ensnarled in a brawl in a low-life barbershop which specializes in reconditioning shiners...
...bears are probably the best thing in the show, but they get a lot of friendly competition from Miss Allbritton's four barbaric little brothers and from several expert comics, old & new. Irene Ryan, a virtual newcomer, does a cute, keen-edged little job as a room-seeking spinster who lands in the wrong house. Buster Keaton, one of the greatest of the silent clowns, gives the world-worn bus driver an aplomb, a strangeness, a depth of sadness, which all but turn the picture from its casual, slap-happy course into something far more impressive...
Aside from Mr. Keaton and the delectable bears, San Diego's level is well indicated by the bitter moment in which Millionaire Hall informs Miss Allbritton that of her father's raft the only part which survived testing was the chewing-gum with which she had patched it; or Eric Blore's unctuous self-introduction to his new employer: "You may call me Nelson." To which Mr. Horton earnestly replies, in the line-of-the-month...