MGM put together a nice quartet of stars almost like they were remaking Libeled Lady. Not as classic as that film, The Feminine Touch boasts the talents of Don Ameche, Rosalind Russell, Van Heflin, and Kay Francis.
Ameche is a psychology professor who insists on some academic effort even by lunkhead football players like Gordon Jones. He quits and takes an unpublished manuscript about jealousy to NYC and wolfish publisher Van Heflin.
The item is a dull psychological treatise, but with a little help it could get racy and scandalous. That's what Heflin sees, but he also likes what he sees in Russell. And Heflin's girl Friday Kay Francis thinks she could make the trip to the Big Apple interesting for Ameche.
The influence of Libeled Lady is clearly evident with the quartet getting in some hilarious situations. Ameche while demonstrating to Russell the techniques of subway mashing gets himself arrested for same and Russell left to fend for herself with a real masher. Also Ameche has an experience with an outboard motorboat similar to William Powell's with a fish in Libeled Lady. The final 'fight' scene with Ameche and Heflin is also a homage to Libeled Lady.
This screen comedy with its classic Hollywood stars is a perfect example of what the big studios could turn out in those good old days.
Ameche is a psychology professor who insists on some academic effort even by lunkhead football players like Gordon Jones. He quits and takes an unpublished manuscript about jealousy to NYC and wolfish publisher Van Heflin.
The item is a dull psychological treatise, but with a little help it could get racy and scandalous. That's what Heflin sees, but he also likes what he sees in Russell. And Heflin's girl Friday Kay Francis thinks she could make the trip to the Big Apple interesting for Ameche.
The influence of Libeled Lady is clearly evident with the quartet getting in some hilarious situations. Ameche while demonstrating to Russell the techniques of subway mashing gets himself arrested for same and Russell left to fend for herself with a real masher. Also Ameche has an experience with an outboard motorboat similar to William Powell's with a fish in Libeled Lady. The final 'fight' scene with Ameche and Heflin is also a homage to Libeled Lady.
This screen comedy with its classic Hollywood stars is a perfect example of what the big studios could turn out in those good old days.