In his sparkling script for this rarely seen comedy, Preston Sturges adapted Ferenc Molnár’s stage play to his own ends, tempering Molnár’s cynicism and highlighting the madcap, adding a hilarious movie-within-a-movie and a host of comic characters with unpronounceable names. The radiant Margaret Sullavan plays an innocent usherette in a Budapest movie theater, who, to deflect the amorous attentions of a would-be benefactor (Frank Morgan), quickly finds herself a husband in the White Pages. “The Good Fairy . . . boasts the quick wit that’s so typical of the screwball comedy, but also a sharply observed critique of predatory masculinity” (Derek Smith, Slant).

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