A very funny movie, the only downside is that Henry Fonda is so totally boring that he doesn't make is character attractive on any level, not even as a sympathetic character. There's no explanation for why a worldly woman like Stanwyck's character would fall for him, although his constant pratfalls were pretty funny.

The idea that Charles wouldn't recognize Jean and would believe the story about a sister was based on the fact that the writer once failed to recognize one of his ex-wives.