A Millionaire For Christy (1951)

A legal secretary (Eleanor Parker) is the sole support of her family. When she meets a radio personality (Fred MacMurray) who's just inherited two million dollars, she plots to snare him even though he's engaged to another woman (Kay Buckley). Directed by George Marshall (THE BLUE DAHLIA), this screwball comedy falls flat in spite of its hard working cast. So hard, in fact, that you're rooting for them but the spark needed to ignite the laughs never happens. Perhaps it might have worked better in the 1930s with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant in the leads and Howard Hawks at the helm. It's not awful, far from it but there's an aura of distress hovering over the movie as if the actors sense it's not going right. With Richard Carlson, Una Merkel and Douglass Dumbrille.