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...plot is, as usual, the least important of the ingredients. Instead, the subtle wit at which William Powell and Myrna Loy have become past masters serves to spice up a thoroughly amusing film. And even their happy marriage is still as palatable to audiences as it ever...
...Shadow, the same couple, Nick & Nora Charles (William Powell & Myrna Loy), are still married, still in love, but the pace, bounce, snappy dialogue, the old fillip of murder and of amiable dipsomania have given way to resigned indigestion and middle age. Even Asta, their renowned beerhound who suffers nervous breakdowns, can pass a fire hydrant now without so much as an inquiring sniff...
...Myrna Loy blinks sweetly through hell and high water, and if she isn't completely oblivious to what's going on, she is well on her way. Asta, the poor man's Rin-Tin-Tin, is back again, but to most moviegoers his cute trick of looking for stray fire-hydrants is about as worn out as the hydrants must be by this time...
...Hollywood reporters he moaned more. He mentioned sadly an occasion a few weeks back when he was prevented from quoting a piece in Photoplay in which one "Fearless" complained that Myrna Loy had "stenographer's spread," Gary Cooper and James Stewart spindle legs. Fidler also pointed out that one of his aerial "editorials" against war propaganda in the films had been squelched...
...spends much of her income on clothes. At least a dozen Hollywood columnists have bigger circulations than Hedda, but none of them makes so much of a splash as she does. She scooped the town on Jimmy Roosevelt's divorce, recently came through again with news of the Myrna Loy-Arthur Hornblow break-up six weeks before it happened...