Also known as Don't Trust Your Husband, this Lubitsch-lite comedy of near-adultery follows an ad executive (Fred MacMurray) as he tries to avoid trouble with his wife (Madeleine Carroll) by disguising the business meetings he's having with an old flame-turned-CEO (Louise Allbritton). His deception only creates a very lively game of "musical chairs" at a nightclub when his wife tries to make him jealous in return. Director Lloyd Bacon got his start as an actor in Charlie Chaplin silents and honed his knack for timing in over 100 movies, most notably Busby Berkeley musicals like 42nd Street and Footlight Parade (both 1933). Some of Berkeley's expertise with spectacle rubbed off: Watch how Bacon, with cinematographer Edward Cronjager, populates a simple bedroom conversation with multiple reflections, silhouettes, and shadows, giving the light comedy a sinister, melancholy edge and cluing the audience in to the deception under the light banter.

By Violet LeVoit