My 150 Favorite Movies - #43
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Irene Dunne stars as a small-town librarian/Sunday School teacher living with her maiden aunts in New England who is also the pseudonymous author of a racy best-selling novel. Melvyn Douglas is her book's big city illustrator. Complications ensue when he follows her home. Released just two years after the Hays Code, this screwball comedy is much more progressive than what was generally viewed of as wholesome fare at that time. Dunne's first comedy, of many, she earned herself an Academy Award nomination, and entered a new phase of her career.
Irene Dunne stars as a small-town librarian/Sunday School teacher living with her maiden aunts in New England who is also the pseudonymous author of a racy best-selling novel. Melvyn Douglas is her book's big city illustrator. Complications ensue when he follows her home. Released just two years after the Hays Code, this screwball comedy is much more progressive than what was generally viewed of as wholesome fare at that time. Dunne's first comedy, of many, she earned herself an Academy Award nomination, and entered a new phase of her career.
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