January 16 movie: If You Could Only Cook. They're doing Jean Arthur movies all month on TCM, and I'm enjoying it immensely. I had only seen a couple of her movies before, and this one was lovely. Arthur plays a down-on-her-luck girl who meets Herbert Marshall on a park bench. He's rich, but he pretends to be unemployed too so he can flirt with her. They end up posing as a married couple so they can get work as the butler and cook for a pair of mobsters. And if you don't know where the movie is going from that premise, you haven't watched many screwball comedies. This was funny, light, and sweet. A romantic comedy snack!
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