In Person (1935)

After being mobbed by fans, a film actress (Ginger Rogers) has a nervous breakdown and becomes agoraphobic. Disguising her identity, she coaxes an outdoorsman (George Brent) to take her to his mountain retreat where she can recover. Based on the novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams and directed by William A. Seiter (THE LITTLE PRINCESS). I rather enjoyed the film's first forty minutes which promised a decent screwball comedy but then it jumps the rails after her disguise is exposed and it just becomes tedious nonsense. This was Rogers' first major role away from her Astaire partnership and an attempt to prove that she could handle a movie on her own. In that respect, I suppose the movie is a success but it's a pity the second half of the film falls flat except for Rogers' tap dance number at the very end of the movie. For Rogers fans only. With Alan Mowbray, who steals the film as Rogers' conceited leading man. Also with Grant Mitchell and Samuel S. Hinds.