That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

A Park Avenue socialite (Merle Oberon) feels ignored by her husband (Melvyn Douglas). When she meets a neurotic musician (Burgess Meredith) in her psychoanalyst's (Alan Mowbray) office, she finds herself attracted to him as he offers an alternative to the rut her marriage is in. Based on the 1880 play DIVORCONS by Victorien Sardou and Emile De Najac and directed by Ernest Lubitsch (NINOTCHKA). Lubitsch had previously used the same source material for his 1925 silent film KISS ME AGAIN. Perhaps the film might have worked better as a pre-code film and its theme of mixed partners and adultery allowed to be more daring. It's not a bad film and if a name other than Lubitsch were attached to it, it might be considered a pleasant diversion. But it is a Lubitsch film and the sparkle and wit just isn't there. Oberon is lovely but comedy is not her forte and even a Rosalind Russell or Carole Lombard would be let down by the script. With Eve Arden, Sig Ruman, Harry Davenport and Olive Blakeney.