In Name Only (1939)

In Name Only (1939)

In one of Carole Lombard’s best films (and it’s not even a comedy!) Cary Grant plays a rich man married to a social climbing bore (played by Kay Francis) to whom he’s married "in name only". One day he meets the widow (Lombard My Man Godfrey (1937)) who has a child that’s been renting a house he owns. Naturally he’s attracted to her (as is she to he) and they begin dating until she discovers his marital status. He tries to convince her that the marriage is loveless and seemingly succeeds when he gets his wife to agree to a divorce. Vindictive bitch that she is how dare he be happy she later reneges on the agreement leaving Grant’s character in a lurch with Lombard’s. Of course Grant’s father (played by Charles Coburn The More The Merrier (1943)) and family think that his wife is great and come down hard on him for his dalliance until they learn his wife’s true character at the very end. Helen Vinson plays one of Francis’s friends. Byron Foulger plays an office clerk uncredited of course! Directed by John Cromwell.

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