Living On Love is a roadshow remake of Rafter Romance that William Powell and Ginger Rogers had done only four years earlier. Someone at RKO must have been stuck for an original story and recycle this one. The slightly less well known James Dunn and Whitney Bourne are in this film as leads.
It's a pleasant enough comedy concerning two people sharing a room at different hours. Whitney is a salesgirl working selling electric shavers for Franklin Pangborn who would like to get better acquainted and she works by day. Her night time roommate is Dunn who is an artist, but works at night as a truck dispatcher.
These two ships that pass in the night don't pass unnoticed and both have habits that annoy. But when they happen to meet there is an attraction that takes the entire running time of the film to bear fruit. Of course neither figure out that the other is the annoying roommate until almost the end of the film.
Living On Love is a pleasant enough screwball comedy with some other good supporting performances by Joan Woodbury as the daughter of the owner of a nearby restaurant that both leads meet at and who has an interest in Dunn. And best of all is Solly Ward as the landlord who for the want of a radio with all kinds of features rents that room with that arrangement to Bourne.
Some of the same comedy situations can also be found in The More The Merrier, a slightly better known film. Even with lesser known leads, Living On Love is your average screwball Thirties comedy much like it's predecessor.
It's a pleasant enough comedy concerning two people sharing a room at different hours. Whitney is a salesgirl working selling electric shavers for Franklin Pangborn who would like to get better acquainted and she works by day. Her night time roommate is Dunn who is an artist, but works at night as a truck dispatcher.
These two ships that pass in the night don't pass unnoticed and both have habits that annoy. But when they happen to meet there is an attraction that takes the entire running time of the film to bear fruit. Of course neither figure out that the other is the annoying roommate until almost the end of the film.
Living On Love is a pleasant enough screwball comedy with some other good supporting performances by Joan Woodbury as the daughter of the owner of a nearby restaurant that both leads meet at and who has an interest in Dunn. And best of all is Solly Ward as the landlord who for the want of a radio with all kinds of features rents that room with that arrangement to Bourne.
Some of the same comedy situations can also be found in The More The Merrier, a slightly better known film. Even with lesser known leads, Living On Love is your average screwball Thirties comedy much like it's predecessor.