A far-fetched set-up is in order for this romantic comedy similar to "The Shop Around the Corner", about two people who meet, at first can't stand each other, and eventually discover that they are connected in a rather unique way. He's a night security guard who needs a place to sleep during the day (apparently working seven days a week) so landlord George Sidney convinces broke tenant Ginger Rogers to share her apartment with him, she working by day while he sleeps, and him gone when she gets home. By chance, they meet each other (not knowing what their shared apartment roommate looks like) and slowly fall in love after a shaky start.
A breezy pre-code comedy with some nice art direction for the apartment, witty dialog and a fabulously comic Laura Hope Crews as a clumsy drunken slob, this is memorable for a sequence where Rogers strips down to her lingerie, revealing a lot and hiding little. Rogers shines in scenes where she's promoting the refrigerators she's trying to sell, and sarcastically dealing with the eccentrics around her. Foster, better known as one of Claudette Colbert's husbands and Loretta Young's brother-in-law, is a light-hearted romantic lead who holds his own against the rising star Rogers who was about to shoot to the top of the box office as the dancing partner of Fred Astaire. In spite of the illogical premise, the film is quite enjoyable, much so that RKO remade it only three years later as the weaker "Living on Love". Crews's character, obviously a wealthy alcoholic out to make Foster her paid lover, played a similar character in the Bob Hope comedy "Thanks for the Memory", and her character bears more than a passing resemblance to the more sophisticated character that Patricia Neal played in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
A breezy pre-code comedy with some nice art direction for the apartment, witty dialog and a fabulously comic Laura Hope Crews as a clumsy drunken slob, this is memorable for a sequence where Rogers strips down to her lingerie, revealing a lot and hiding little. Rogers shines in scenes where she's promoting the refrigerators she's trying to sell, and sarcastically dealing with the eccentrics around her. Foster, better known as one of Claudette Colbert's husbands and Loretta Young's brother-in-law, is a light-hearted romantic lead who holds his own against the rising star Rogers who was about to shoot to the top of the box office as the dancing partner of Fred Astaire. In spite of the illogical premise, the film is quite enjoyable, much so that RKO remade it only three years later as the weaker "Living on Love". Crews's character, obviously a wealthy alcoholic out to make Foster her paid lover, played a similar character in the Bob Hope comedy "Thanks for the Memory", and her character bears more than a passing resemblance to the more sophisticated character that Patricia Neal played in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".