Every Girl Should Be Married Reviews

Drake made her debut in this film and took most of the notices as she burst on the screen with an insouciant quality that had seldom been seen before (and with a bubbly-voiced, cue-jumping delivery duplicated by Joanne Woodward). One year later, she married costar Grant. She's a clerk in a large urban department store who sets her sights on pediatrician Grant and decides that he is the man for her. With great patience, she begins learning all she can about Grant: his college life, his eating habits, his bachelor haunts, and even his favorite color (blue). Armed with this information, she begins her campaign to make him her husband. Grant is hip to it all and successfully resists all her Machiavellian tactics. Several ploys fail, including the use of Tone, her boss at the store, as a subject of jealousy. In the end, she hires an actor to pose as an old beau who is coming to take her back to her little town, and Grant finally bites (as he did in real life). Funny lines but slightly overdone direction by Hartman. In the hands of Hawks, it could have been better, but even adequate Cary Grant is better than no Cary Grant at all. Feminists and men who dislike aggressive women will not love this movie but it was right for its time and still packs a punch.