Out of the Blue

Comedy starring George Brent, Virginia Mayo, Turhan Bey, Carole Landis, and Ann Dvorak. "The yarn presents Brent as a frau-dominated and generally willynilly guy living in a Greenwich Village apartment down the terrace from Bey, an artist with a big dogand a bigger appetite for models. Feud between them is touched off when the dog buries a bone in Brent's zinnias and Brent's wife (Carole Landis...) forces him to try and oust the artist from the apartment. During the weekend absence of his wife, Brentis picked up by an interior decorator (Ann Dvorak) whose interior is already well decorated with brandies, and, in a fit of wickedness, he invites her to his apartment. When she passes out he thinks she is dead, and stuffs her onto Bey's terrace. Obviously she comes to, and Bey, using Brent's guilt as a stratagem to call off the landlords, forces Brent to go through with a mock burial. Criss-cross farce from one apartment to the other follows. Brent, finally caught by his wife, worms the turn in time-honored fashion. Brent... easily holds up his end, but it is Miss Dvorak who wows as the screwball interior decorator..." (Variety, August 27, 1947)