The only reason I stuck through I Live My Life was because I was delighted to see Brian Aherne and Joan Crawford paired up together in their youth, since one of my favorite movies, The Best of Everything, features both of them twenty-five years later. How darling, I thought, to see them young and pretty and falling in love. Unless you love screwball comedies, which I do not, you might not enjoy this movie either.
Joan is a spoiled, vapid, heiress, and while on a cruise along the Greek islands, she meets the hunky archeologist Brian. Brian is straight-forward in his speech and has calluses on his hands, so Joan wants nothing more than a fun vacation fling, but when he takes their affair to heart, she had a minor problem on her hands. She gives Brian a fake name and pretends she's a lowly secretary. The minor problem turns major when Brian follows her home to New York and wants to marry her!
Normally, having the handsome Brian Aherne in love with you isn't a problem. But if you have two completely different lifestyles and neither one is willing to change, and if you have completely different views, goals, and values, it is a problem. Clearly, Joan and Brian are mismatched and shouldn't try to stay together, but since this is a romantic comedy in the 1930s, the movie might not listen to common sense.
Joan is a spoiled, vapid, heiress, and while on a cruise along the Greek islands, she meets the hunky archeologist Brian. Brian is straight-forward in his speech and has calluses on his hands, so Joan wants nothing more than a fun vacation fling, but when he takes their affair to heart, she had a minor problem on her hands. She gives Brian a fake name and pretends she's a lowly secretary. The minor problem turns major when Brian follows her home to New York and wants to marry her!
Normally, having the handsome Brian Aherne in love with you isn't a problem. But if you have two completely different lifestyles and neither one is willing to change, and if you have completely different views, goals, and values, it is a problem. Clearly, Joan and Brian are mismatched and shouldn't try to stay together, but since this is a romantic comedy in the 1930s, the movie might not listen to common sense.