She Wouldn't Say Yes

I really enjoyed this film. I found it funny and rather quaint. I would recommend this when you just want to relax and not think about anything to deeply! For me this has got to be at least 10 out of 10. I found it charming and watching it in 2021 it is a good history lesson in terms of how films were back then. Light hearted comedy. Not to be taken serioulsy!

I'm a big Rosalind Russell fan and have seen most of her films, but this is the weakest. Lee Bowman is a decent actor, but the character he plays is an annoying, intrusive stalker who should have been served with a restraining order before the half-way point in the movie. After nearly an hour and a half of forcefully rejecting his irritating harassment, Russell suddenly turns one hundred and eighty degrees and is in love. It makes no sense. This was an unfunny, uninvolving waste of talent, film, studio space, electricity, you name it, that even the great Miss Russell couldn't save. She must have really needed money at the time.

I thought it was cute, the premise was good. A woman who was always in control, never impulsive or prone to following emotions; then comes along a man who follows his emotions on first hand. The opposite factor comes into play adding to the comedy. While the way they trick her into getting married is charming. Even if I wish the writer would of made it more zany screwball, and longer, like the comedies of that time. They could of really been on to something then. While the acting was good, Rosalind Russell was a comic queen of that time and Lee Bowman does the job. All in all not that bad at all. Like I said...cute.

as many comedies from same period, it is a nice film. not perfect,not real convincing, using a lot of clichés but nice. and that fact saves it. a film about tension between a woman and a man, few amusing scenes and few good performances, Rosalind Russell in a role who use the experience about same type of character, Lee Bowman in a seductive role who has the fundamental problem to have a great ignored potential , Adele Jergens as the perfect choice for a lovely character. it is easy to criticize it. but it has the virtue to propose not only a story who seems be more a sketch but to use interesting cast. and that fact remains useful. for remember a form of cinema with special flavor.

A real screwball comedy that simply doesn't work because of the silliness of the whole situation. Susan Lane, (Roz Russell) meets Lee Bowman (Kent) and he falls for her immediately. She, a psychiatrist, is true to her profession. She acts as if she is above everyone. What makes this film a stinker is the idea that when the judge, aided by her father, wants to marry Susan, she thinks he literally wants to marry her. You can only go so far with this routine and they go way overboard. There are one or two good moments, especially by butler Harry Davenport, who gives his philosophy about life. Lee Bowman is perfect for the part of Mr. Kent, but the writing here is contrived. Does the film really end with a dream sequence or what?

I would agree that most of this movie is a bit stale, but if the entire movie had had the same energy as scenes 8 and 9 this would be remembered as a great screwball comedy. Those scenes have the perfect set-up that Bogdonovich has stated make screwballs work. That is the characters are acting normal and logical to themselves but we know what the characters don't. There are so many characters involved in these scenes but the dialog remains logical. The writing in these scenes is superb. The character progression of Dr. Lane is the major impediment to this movie. As others have said, it's not realistic that she falls in love at the end. If she had slowly thawed over the course of the movie it would have been better.

The bite had gone out of the Columbia comedies by the time they got around to having Roz Russell, in her Travis Bainton wardrobe, front this one as a psychiatrist who assures army hospital patients that we don't get shell shock anymore. According to formula, her self sufficiency has to be wiped out by the final reel and the agent of change here is a less than sparkling Lee Bowman, serviceman cartoonist whose Nixie strip character banishes inhibitions. The studio's most prestigious technicians give things a smoothness that doesn't make them any more plausible. Best element is the forties atmosphere - train, clothes, cars. Russell and Hall got better results with MY SISTER EILEEN.