So Goes My Love (1946)

Set in 1860's Brooklyn, a gold digger (Myrna Loy) has intentions of finding a rich husband and she finds one in a real estate developer (Richard Gaines). But on the day of her wedding, she realizes she's in love with a penniless inventor (Don Ameche). Based on the non fiction book A GENIUS IN THE FAMILY by Hiram Percy Maxim (played by Bobby Driscoll in the movie) and directed by Frank Ryan (CAN'T HELP SINGING). The book focused on young Maxim's relationship with his father who invented the curling iron, the mousetrap and a type of machine gun among many other inventions. However, the movie shifts the focus to his mother played by Myrna Loy. This was first film Loy did as a free lance actor after her MGM contract was up. While she looks sensational, the movie does her no favors. It's a weak LIFE WITH FATHER (which would reach screens a year later) wannabe without the requisite folksy charm needed to make something like this work. Ameche's inventor is supposed to be eccentric but he comes across as self absorbed and after years of seeing Loy playing the sophisticated wife in the THIN MAN films who gives witty hubby William Powell a run for his money, it's disconcerting to see her play the housewife to a dullard like Ameche (his character, not the actor). With Rhys Williams and Molly Lamont.