Love Crazy (1941)

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Love Crazy is the title of one of William Powell and Myrna Loy's trifles, but it's also how I feel about the onscreen couple. And by the director of Libeled Lady too! In this one, they start out as a very cozy married couple, but on the night of their 4th wedding anniversary, things - a meddling mother-in-law, a sexy ex-girlfriend, and just plain comedy misunderstandings - conspire to break them up. Powell does a lot of a physical comedy in this, which is fun enough, but Myrna gets the best lines, even if her character keeps jumping to conclusions. I laughed out loud several times, but things get more and more screwball by the end, which doesn't work as well on me. The plot about Powell feigning madness to keep Loy from divorcing him is only actually funny because she keeps upping the ante to teach him a lesson, but it's really just a matter of two people finding thin excuses not to be together, which puts the picture in the "harmless" category. (So it's a shame that there are a couple of off-handedly racist jokes in there - again, no real harm done, but the movie shows its age.) 4 years 6 months ago