Review of One Hour with You

I'm not particularly enamoured of ether Maurice Chevalier or Jeanette MacDonald but here they are at least bearable. It was possibly shot a little before Hallelujah, I'm A Bum, but the Rodgers and Hart score employs similar rhyming dialogue to that on display here which is the work of Leo Robin - a contract lyricist at Paramount he also worked with MacDonald on Beyond The Blue Horizon - who set some dots by Oscar Strauss. Ernst Lubitsch was, of course, celebrated for the 'Lubitsch touch' and it is in evidence here on this 'pre-code' entry. The story is hat of the oldest kind and poses the age-old question do infants have as much fun in infancy as adults do in adultery. Apart from the two principals there is fine support from both Roland Young and Charlie Ruggles with the rarely seen Genevieve Tobin weighing in with a nice line in femme fatales. Worth a look.