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Girls, "what would you do if you had a job with the Government in Washington and you came home and found Joel McCrea singing in your shower...
...More The Merrier, was heard on 50 stations of the four major radio networks last week. CBS's Manhattan station WABC turned the silly gag down-to the extent of refusing to hitch the advertising plug to a newscast. Other CBS stations were willing, however, to mention McCrea's shower on variety and other light programs...
...picture is ably summed up by Mr. McCrea, who observes to Miss Astor: "You never think of anything but Topic...
Other ingredients in Mr. Sturges' glittering cocktail are Joel McCrea (as Claudette's husband), and a gay new Mary Astor (as Rudy's sister) with her hair dyed blonde for the first time to distinguish her from brunette Claudette. The plot sometimes seems in need of sign posts to keep things straight. It has to do with Miss Colbert's flight from her husband to Florida and high jinks-which end with Miss Colbert being disrobed by her husband while Rudy croons to her from the garden...
Theoretically there's a moral running along somewhere in the movie. It is that behind the great man there stands a woman who spuss him on in his achievements. How Joel McCrea, the "great man" in this case, ever manages to get past first base ranks as the number one cinema mystery of the season. He gambles away his property, shoots his wife's best friend, disappears at the weirdest times, and manages to scare the daylights out of his wife when he is around...