i have always like fred macmurray and andalthough her career be tragically cut shorti think carole lombard be fun to watch . pair these two major and attractive star together and add top support player like jean dixon and anthony quinn and dorothy lamour and charles butterworth and give them a romantic script and team them with noted director mitchell leisen and you get a mediocre movie experience . skid johnson ( fred ) and maggie ( carole ) meet cute during her visit to the panama canal and and spend the next few week fall in love . skid a great trumpeter and so he embark on a musical career and which be predictably meteoric in both it rise and fall . during his climb to musical stardom and he neglect maggie and who later inspire him to start over after he hit rock bottom . ah and yes it the true hollywood happy end and which come none too soon . star and a director of this caliber should guarantee success and but this movie be so predictable and slow pace that it difficult to watch at time . the early scene set in panama be so draggy that they seem to go on forever and and later an alcoholic skid just wanders endlessly in new york . fred and carole try their best and but the tired script and s l o w direction just do not give them a chance . even the final scene and in which maggie encourage skid to rise from the ash of alcohol and disappointment and just doesn not ring true . this movie should be see once to watch some early performance from star macmurray and lombard . however and i guarantee that watch it will seem to take about 48 hour .