Honeymoon In Bali (1939)

The head (Madeleine Carroll) of a major department store is totally focused on her career and marriage isn't in the cards. Her resolve is tested when a visitor (Fred MacMurray) from Bali tries to sweep her off her feet. Based on the short stories OUR MISS KEANE by Grace Sartwell Mason and FREE WOMAN by Katharine Brush and directed by Edward H. Griffith (THE SKY'S THE LIMIT). Sigh! Yet another 1930s/40s romantic comedy about a career woman who is considered incomplete without a husband and children! So, of course, we know how the movie will end. Perhaps it would have been more tolerable if it were actually romantic and funny but no dice. It's all rather charmless. They even throw in an "adorable" moppet (Carolyn Lee) who has no parents to tug at our heartstrings. Not the fault of the actors. Both Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray are appealing but they can't turn straw into silk. With Akim Tamiroff, Helen Broderick, Osa Massen and Monty Woolley.