Easing into the forties: a housing shortage in wartime Washington forces a government worker, Connie (Jean Arthur), to share her apartment with two men. Joe (Joel McCrea) moves in on Connie's feelings as well as her furniture while the mischievous Mr. Dingle (Charles Coburn) manipulates their romance from his quarters. James Harvey writes in Romantic Comedy: "George Stevens' funniest and most inspired comedy...gives Jean Arthur her best role since Easy Living...The problem with Connie-apart from her rather rigid character-is that she already has a fianc?(a Mr. Pendergast, whom she can't) quite help betraying...though she fights it to the end. Arthur gives a hilarious movie-long impersonation of this struggle against the flesh. The way she frowns when Joe tells her she looks lovely tonight ('Oh,' she says, like someone getting the expected bad news), or the way she keeps walking backward into his chest...It all culminates in that scene on the front stoop...'Yes,' she says, as Joe nuzzles her...'I consider mysef a very lucky little lady'-she is trying to interest him in Mr. Pendergast's engagement ring, holding up her ring finger to show it off-but his head, as usual in this scene, is somewhere down her back..."