a comedy that work surprisingly well be the little british effort the divorce of lady x ( 1938 ) . it mark the first pairing of laurence olivier and merle oberon and before that little film about uncontrollable passion on the 19th century english moor . and while olivier and oberon be not particularly well suit to screwball comedy and it all flow along nicely . oberon be leslie and a young woman who end up in priggish divorce lawyer logan ( olivier ) hotel suite by way of a nasty english fog prevent travel . she do everything possible to irritate him but and in the crazy way film go and he fall for her . and she fall for him . but a serious case of mistaken identity occur when oberon lady x ( that all she leave oliver in a note ) be think by olivier to be a married woman . to make matter bad and and more amusing and lord mere ( ralph richardson ) go to olivier want a divorce from his wife whom dear larry think must be oberon . there be some nice battle of the sex dialogue and and fun exploration of sexual politics . you can see that olivier be not too confident with the comedy and but in true olivier he a consummate professional and and delivers . and he handle the screwball twist and turn and maybe not with ease and but with gusto . oberon be no great shake a an actress and but she be usually competent enough and and despite their repute off screen dislike of her and work well with olivier . this be film in early technicolour that look very primitive today ( everyone look even white than michael jackson ) and but perhaps the print need clean up .