The Impatient Years (Columbia) converts a promising situationthe readjustment problems of a returning soldier and his wifeinto fair-to-middling, coarsegrained comedy (typical shot: the shy pair, on their first night of reunion, prowling round & round the nuptial bed like two suspicious alley cats). Halfway through, the story goes fancy, loses touch with its touching subject but not entirely with its ability to get laughs, thanks to Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, Lee Bowman, Charley Grapewin.
Bride by Mistake (RKO-Radio) had every right to be a perfectly awful mistake, but turns out to be pretty...
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