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...comes to Washington with just one job in mind: to make as many planes as possible as fast as possible. Little things like swiping a trainload cf steel on which the Navy has priority do not upset him at all. But they do upset his delicious secretary (Olivia de Havilland). She, in turn, obscurely upsets her boss, who, with no time for love, undertakes a secret study of books like How To Be Happily Married. Miss de Havilland's boyfriend (Jess Barker), a smooth young attorney in search of scandal, is also interested in her boss. Investigated at long...
Olivia de Havilland possesses all the personal charm of a marshmallow which can also cook. She also has distinct limitations as a comedienne, not much helped when she has to sob about Sonny Tufts: "He's just like a great big long-eared dog." Cinemactor Tufts develops a rich comic realism. His conventional pinstripes and orgiastic ties, his scuffed luggage, his interviews with various Washington bureaucratic heavies are bright enough bits of authenticity to delight any director. Agnes Moorehead, under Dudley Nichols' direction, turns in a portrait of a Washington wolverine which is a blend of comic-strip...
Princess O'Rourke (Warner) is radio-advertised by a police voice: "Calling all moviegoers! Calling all moviegoers! Be on lookout for "Princess O'Rourke," better known as Olivia de Havilland. Five feet three, and every inch a darling. Also young American pilot, known as Robert Cummings. Six feet one, has gleam in his eye. This couple believed to have stolen everybody's heart. . . . That...
...just about. But Princess O'Rourke, a pleasant enough comedy, offers one unusual shot-prim Olivia de Havilland in a bathtub scene. Miss de Havilland, a princess in search of a diplomatically and physically acceptable consort, happens on Transcontinental Pilot Robert Cummings. Miss de Havilland and Pilot Cummings exchange some rather rare wheezes about his ability to perpetuate the royal line and she decides he is just what she needs. Then the picture shifts to Washington for what is getting to be a patent Warner Bros, windup. It seems that President Roosevelt has avuncular feelings toward the princess...
Olivia de Havilland, in contract difficulties in Hollywood, told a judge she had refused a role because a friend was about to leave for China for the duration, and: "I felt that with the interests of the country at heart, I should spend as much time with him as possible...