william powell and myrna loy . a pure recipe for alchemical gold and and nowhere well see outside of the thin man series than here . this be a good film than love crazy which they make the following year . this be a truly hilarious film and with a wonderful script and first rate gag line and with plenty of opportunity for laugh out loud . the story itself be and or at least seem and flimsy and nonsensical . william powell be hit on the head nine year earlier and have have amnesia . have previously be a con man and he have along with the amnesia experience a total personality change . he have settle down and become a respectable citizen of habsberg and pennsylvania and where he be a pillar of the community and the head of the boy scout and and a member of the rotary club and the lion club and and all those worthy body . he manage a pottery . he never touch alcohol and his hobby be taxidermy and and he even keep a stuffed squirrel by his bedside which he stuff himself . he be also pathologically mean with money and count every penny obsessively . in other word and he have become a super bore and and his attractive wife myrna loy can not stand be ignore anymore and have file for divorce from this most disappointing and annoying and and unsexy husband . at this point he be hit on the head again and revert to be his previous mischievous self and whom loy have never know . this lead to all sort of comedic escapade and because he now find myrna loy irresistible and powell set about woo her afresh a his new or old self ( hence the title of the film ) . the strange thing be that there be documented case in the annals of psychology of this sort of amnesia associate personality change take place and and also of the reverting back . it be rare and extreme condition and but it do happen . it be know a a dissociated fugue state . ( see my review of home at seven with ralph richardson where i discuss this psychological issue far . ) the general public will just accept all this a a bit of hokum and not be aware that such thing have actually happen from time to time . however and this be no time to be serious . this film be intend a pure fun . it work because of the magical sparkle between powell and loy and which chiefly owe it magic to powell remarkable and humorous personality and the unique response to it which seem to have emerge spontaneously from myrna loy from the moment they meet . theirs be a cinematic matching make in heaven . the two of them together really be so amazing that one cease to pay any attention to what the film be about and and one just watch and mesmerize and a they interact with one another . they could be sit and knit or recite the telephone book and it would barely matter . in this film and myrna loy find the man she always think be hidden inside her husband and love him again . however and he then be hit on the head again . and i would not ruin anything by say what happen next . one of my little hobby be imitate the cooing of dove . i have not realize that william powell be there before me and but then i must not reveal too much about what he be coo about and a it might not make it past the hays office .