"You're wrecking your life with logic," says Claudette Colbert's father William Collier in the romantic comedy The Bride Comes Home. If you agree with that sentiment, you'll like this movie. If, like me, that statement gets under your skin and makes you never want to be friends with whoever said it, you won't like this movie.

The beautiful Claudette has an admirer in Robert Young, but because he's too nice, supportive, and faithful, she doesn't return his feelings. He gives her a job even though she's wholly unqualified, and when her new boss Fred MacMurray criticizes her and tries to make her working environment so awful she'll quit, she falls for him. The movie is not unique, as you can find the same message in The Ugly Truth, made 75 years later. If someone drives you crazy and you argue with him constantly and you have nothing in common, but you're physically attracted to him, pick him over everyone else. Fred and Claudette are obviously unsuited, and Bob is a dream. He promises never to argue with her, and when he keeps his word, she whines and says, "Why won't you argue? Why won't you do anything besides grin and sing?"

A triangle romance for those who like their entertainment soft and easy on the brain, mildly luxurious to the eye. Miss Colbert has a part well within her range and looks most, most alluring in her Travis Banton nightwear (though her street costumes are sometimes faintly ludicrous). Mr MacMurray is his usual brash and somewhat unpleasant self while Robert Young plays the other man with his usual ease and quiet self-effacement. William Collier Sr manages the difficult feat of playing with conviction a character whose motives and actions are childish or eccentric. Collier makes his odd behavior seem perfectly natural. Edgar Kennedy provides some of his famous slow burns for an extended climax made necessary by cross-cutting to true love racing to the rescue. Other roles are small but competently played with Donald Meek contributing a memorable cameo as an angry judge.

The direction is unobtrusively smooth but routine. Tover's photography seems attractive and the art direction, as usual in Paramount pictures, is visually exciting, although it must be noted that the sets are not as large, varied, or lavishly appointed as usual and that in fact production values here stack up as comparatively rather moderate. Still the characters are likable and are given an occasional witty line, even though the story line hangs on very slight wings, has almost no development and a foregone conclusion.

OTHER VIEWS: Rather forced comedy, pivoting on a flimsy triangle story which has only the two or three promisingly comic ideas. In this typical Claude Binyon screenplay, these basic ideas are stretched mighty thin. Man, it's the dullest! And it's directed by Wesley Ruggles. He's dull too. Nice photography though! - J.H.R. writing as Tom Howard.

Once again, Claudette Colbert is a wacky heiress, unaware that her supposedly wealthy pop William Collier is now broke. She decides to go to work and finagles a job working as assistant editor at happy go lucky Robert Young's magazine where new editor Fred MacMurray wants nothing to do with her and keeps trying to get her to quit by treating her rough. Like the Gershwin song from "Girl Crazy", she likes it and falls in love with him but circumstances push her back towards Young, leading MacMurray to seek advice from her father how to get her back.

Having rethought my original rating of 6/10 (***/****),I found how little I tolerate MacMurray in roles like this where he's supposedly the all American boy next door, and really just nothing but a big ole' jerk. Young is easy going, perpetually drunk at night, and not too bright, but even with those aspects, he's far more appealing than MacMurray. Colbert isn't a prize either, far too fickle and not written with any consistency in this Wesley Ruggles directed script by Claude Binyon.

Funny bits with Donald Meek as a judge (who stands up to the much bigger MacMurray in a very funny way) and Edgar Kennedy in the typical slow burn as a justice of the peace (with a wife whose playing of the wedding march leaves more to be desired) aide this with laughs, but the often done story has been done many times and much better. Stick with Colbert and MacMurray in "The Egg and I" where the obstacles were much more believable even if MacMurray was a bit of a pill in that too.