August 30 movie: The Doctor Takes a Wife. Romantic comedy starring Loretta Young and Ray Milland as two professionals (a writer and a medical school professor, respectively) who have hate at first sight. When a rumor gets started that they're married, they discover that it would be bad for their careers to deny it, so they pretend it's true. This was a good movie. Not great, but good, genuinely funny. Good supporting work by Reginald Gardiner (who played Noel Coward in The Man Who Came to Dinner), Gail Patrick and Edmund Gwenn. For once Gail Patrick isn't a villain. Just a poor crass sap who's destined to lose the guy.
The best part of the movie may be the title of Loretta Young's book: Spinsters Aren't Spinach, a wildly successful self-help book for single women.
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