Day-Time Wife

According to her published date of birth, gorgeous Linda Darnell was only 18 when she made this film, in which she plays Power's wife of two years. This was Power's fifth film of 1939 and a step in the right direction; he'd been so associated with heroic types that the time was right for him to expand into comedy. Power is a roofing executive who calls wife Darnell and tells her that he'll be home late that night (their second anniversary), since he has to work late at the office. Finding lipstick on his collar, Darnell consults her thrice-married pal Barnes, who tells Darnell to give the cad a dose of his own medicine. Darnell takes a job with Warren William, an a...