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Vicki Wallace teases her husband Tony until he hits her. After divorcing and marrying Vernon, her behavior leads to similar results. She returns to Tony's place, where drama unfolds with his date Bonnie and Vernon's friends.
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"This early screwball comedy is infuriating for two reasons: 1) the lead female character, who manages to be more irritating than the Hepburn character in BRINGING UP BABY, and 2) the way she's treated by the men in her life. At a party, Joan Blondell has a fight with her husband (Warren William) and he slaps her in the face (something to do with diced carrots). She doesn't actually seem to be all that hurt, physically or emotionally, but she nevertheless decides to get a divorce, egged on by lawyer friend Edward Everett Horton, who is himself in love with Blondell. After the divorc..."
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Tony tells Vicki that he's been going to the movies quite a lot recently, and there the women are quite different: "They get pushed in the face with grapefruit and they love it." This is a reference to The Public Enemy (1931) with James Cagney, who famously shoved half a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face. Joan Blondell also was in that film, so this apparently is an inside joke.
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Vicki Wallace teases her husband Tony until he hits her. After divorcing and marrying Vernon, her behavior leads to similar results. She returns to Tony's place, where drama unfolds with his date Bonnie and Vernon's friends.