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In his sparkling script for this rarely seen comedy, 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. Director William Wyler quarreled with his leading lady during filming, then took her out to dinner to establish a truce. The strategy must have worked: the pair eloped two weeks before the production was completed, a twist of fate worthy of one of Sturges's scripts.