November 10 movie: Come Live With Me. A very silly screwball comedy with Hedy Lamarr and Jimmy Stewart. Lamarr is an Austrian refugee facing deportation, who pays starving writer Stewart to marry her so she can stay in the country. Stewart of course falls in love with her, but she's busy getting it on with a wealthy, older publisher. Who does she end up with? Well if you've ever seen a screwball comedy, you don't have to ask.
I enjoyed this very much except for 2 things: Stewart's "salt of the earth" grandma, who speaks only in proverbs, and these creepy cartoons in the closing credits of Lamarr and Stewart with the bodies of fireflies. Eek.
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