Love Before Breakfast (1936)

A wealthy businessman (Preston Foster) is madly in love with a dizzy socialite (Carole Lombard) who is engaged to another man (Cesar Romero). He buys the company her fiance works for and packs him off to Japan so he can have a clear field with the socialite. Based on the short story SPINSTER DINNER by Faith Baldwin and directed by Walter Lang (THE KING AND I). This is one annoying screwball comedy! Yapping away at a mile a minute, Lombard is at her most irritating but even if she had been at her best, she's stuck with Preston Foster who doesn't appear to have a comedic bone in his body so there's no one for her to play off of. Foster's character is a manipulating bully who won't take no for an answer yet they're both so self centered, they clearly deserve each other. A gross miscalculation! With Janet Beecher, Betty Lawford and Joyce Compton.