Casar e Descasar

Socialite Carole Lombard is free and easy in her attitude towards men. When her maid tries to commit suicide, she tells her it's all talk, and gets Viennese doctor Paul Lukas to take her to his hospital. Her affair with Ricardo Cortez is an on-and-off one, and when it's off, she elopes with Lukas... and then, while Lukas is getting a judge to perform the ceremony, Cortez shows up and talks her into marrying him.

Everyone is perfectly miserable, as they should be, because Miss Lombard is a scatterbrained fool. She's also the star of this movie, so while Lukas suffer nobly, she suffers ignoble when during a cruise with her parents, George Barbier and Virginia Hampton, Cortez brings along his mistress.

I suppose the moral of this story is if you suffer enough for your stupidity, it's all ok. I fear I cannot endorse that attitude, and while the inevitable conclusion may be that Lukas and Miss Lombard will get together without committing any actual crime, she doesn't deserve it.

There's a nice comedy bit for Irving Bacon as the confused clerk filling out the marriage license. It doesn't make up for the rest.