You Belong To Me (1941)

While vacationing at a ski lodge, an immature but very rich playboy (Henry Fonda) has a skiing accident. He becomes smitten with the doctor (Barbara Stanwyck) attending him and they get married. But she has a difficult time adjusting to the luxurious life that comes with him while he is insanely jealous of any man she has contact with including her male patients. Directed by Wesley Ruggles (I'M NO ANGEL), this romantic comedy is more irritating than amusing. Jealousy is a very unattractive trait which automatically makes Fonda's millionaire a creep and the movie has an underlying suggestion that a woman's true vocation is a wife and if Stanwyck would just give up her career, they'll live happily ever after! Earlier in the year, Stanwyck and Fonda hit a bullseye with THE LADY EVE, one of the best screwball comedies ever made but here, they come up with a cropper. Amazingly, the film opened to good reviews. The film's star power makes the movie nominally watchable but nothing can make it better. With Edgar Buchanan, Ruth Donnelly, Melville Cooper and Fritz Feld.