"Surprise and delights as though nothing of the kind had been known before...farce and tenderness are combined without a fault." -- William Whitebait, The New Statesman. "This Preston Sturges production is packed with delightful absurdities. Claudette Colbert comes through with one of her best light comedy interpretations...Tongue-in-cheek spoofing of the idle rich attains hilarious proportions in scenes where Rudy Vallee, as John D. Hackensacker the Third, proposes to the errant wife [Colbert] and later woos her by singing to her to the accompaniment of a privately hired symphony orch big enough to fill the Radio City Music Hall pit." -- Variety

"Rudy Vallee is the picture's biggest surprise, in the role of a stuffy millionaire -- John D. Hackensacker 3rd -- which he performs with amusing pomposity." -- Bosley Crowther, The New York Times

"Sturges was riding high in the early '40s, writing and directing comedies of such density and wit that a moment's inattention might make an audience miss six great one-liners, five amazing bits of business, four eight-syllable words, and three crowd scenes." -- Geoff Brown, Time Out

By Frank Miller