As if you'd seen a ghost

My Favorite Wife

(1940)

You know, if Gail Patrick's third wheel were as sympathetic as Randolph Scott's fourth, this would be a practically perfect comedy. But poor Patrick, whom I just saw in My Man Godfrey: did she ever get to play anything but a spoiled rich bitch?

Cary Grant's 45-degree-angle take when his Nick first spies his ostensibly late wife (Irene Dunne, never lovelier) may be his best single comic moment ever, which is tall cotton.