Along Came Love

Irene Hervey spots Charles Starrett and realizes he's her dream man. She pursues him, but he's so busy studying to be a pediatrician he doesn't see her, until he suddenly falls in love with her.

That's the way this movie starts, and that's how it goes on. It has eccentric characters, good performers (H.B.Warner, Doris Kenyon, Ferdinand Gottschalk), funny situations..... but every time a plot point comes up that blocks the inevitable happy ending of all romantic comedies, it takes about two minutes to solve it, because everyone is so gosh-darned nice. There's no dramatic tension at all. You can't make a story without some dramatic tension, some problem to be solved, and while they are offered up, every time it looks like something needs to be done, some one does something swell and the problem goes away. Once I realized that (after about ten minutes), there was nothing of further interest in the story.

Miss Hervey tries to play this like a naive Ginger Rogers and Mr. Starrett.... well, he simply seems to have done what the director said at the moment.