Married Before Breakfast

Inventor Robert Young has just sold one of his inventions for a lot of money, and so can satisfy a lot of wishes. One friend gets a piano. Another get a hundred share in a publicly traded company. And Young will marry his socialite fiancee June Clayworth the next morning and they will honeymoon in Europe. But first, Florence Rice shows up and he offers her a wish. Her fiance, Hugh Marlowe, has to sell an insurance policy to Tom Kennedy, which will gain him a promotion. So Young sets out with her to do that, and gets involved in some odd adventures.

It's a surprisingly sprightly, wide-eyed comedy, not at all the sort of thing that MGM did particularly well, even with the usual gloss available for Metro's roster of character comedians. I attribute it to a well-built script, ably punched up by George Oppenheimer. He had helped found Viking Press in 1925, had four plays on Broadway, ghost-wrote for George S. Kaufman and Robert E. Sherwood, helped write three Marx Brothers movies and ended his career as a drama critic. He died in 1977 at the age of 77.