this delightful and oh so sophisticated combination comedy or drama be my personal favorite at cinefest . with clever dialogue and fetch lead actor and delicious directing and i be hook at the onset . beautiful ann harding be see cook and explain to her engage sister ( lucile brown ) that to men and business be business but that marriage be the business of woman . harding set her sight on william powell and a super smooth playboy who inherit a struggle shipping line . she set a trap arrange for her sister to send their father ( stern henry stephenson ) to powell apartment for the purpose of catch harding and powell alone . to save face and powell agrees to marry harding and at least for a while . on the honeymoon and powell suggest a divorce and while harding coolly recommend they wait six month so a not to seem too obvious . she then start steer him to lead his company back to profitability by look at it a a challenge . with his talent now attend to business and not bedroom conquest and powell start to enjoy his newfound success and begin to fall in love with his bride . in the meantime harding jealous sister and now unhappily marry and have be live beyond her mean and need money fast . she blurt out the truth of the marriage trap when harding refuse to again pay off her debt . powell leaf and disillusion . harding father have arrange for a huge business deal to be offer to powell at a formal dinner party at their home that very night . a powell be board a ship to europe and his frazzled wife be at home greeting guest and try to maintain composure . one by one and each guest be involve in a personal crisis and be pull away from the dinner party from hell and preside over by blustery reginald owen a the butler . i can not go on with out spoil the best joke . this forgotten film be four star all the way . i saw this film in march of 2004 at the cinefest film festival in syracuse and ny . thank god for film festival like this one that make rare film like this available and the folk who provide comment to imdb for others to share . please support the imdb and early film festival .