" . . . Ya Gotta Change 'Em Regular," John Wayne tells Jean Arthur (at least, this is conveyed to her second-hand by his husband, Charles Winninger). As this surprisingly progressive A LADY TAKES A CHANCE story begins, Wayne has been gay-married to Winninger for a number of years in a May-December Romance. (A LADY TAKES A CHANCE closes with Wayne's character "Duke" telling Arthur's "Molly" that "I divorced Waco," referring to Winninger, as he decides to swing over to her "side.") Molly is equally ahead of her time, rotating a string of three lover boys back in New York City, but hankering for Fresh Meat Out West. Though the L-Word gets a little lip service here embodied by Florie, Molly's seat mate on the western-bound tour bus, the Trangendered Movement may feel slighted as the odd thing left out here. (But Duke goes further along the limb than any of the Kardashians when he two-times Waco with his Trusty Steed, Sammy.) One might wonder how LADY finds time to squeeze in so much anachronistic sex between the Action Scenes. This is made possible by LADY's virtual lack of Action (unless you count a few seconds of rodeo and a brief bar brawl).
Review of A Lady Takes a Chance
