"Three Cornered Moon is a film that deserves to be better known. It is one of the earliest screwball comedies, an adroit mix of crazy comedy and sane sentiment. The story is quintessential thirties: a widow loses the family fortune in a stock fraud, and her three children must try to get ahead in a bad economy. One son is a law student, another a frustrated ham actor, and the daughter (Claudette Colbert, in an early role) must go to work in a shoe factory. Three Cornered Moon...was directed by Elliott Nugent, a Broadway director whose movies are distinguished by fine, thoughtful performances. Mary Boland is excellent here as the scatterbrained mother, and Colbert is sensational. Three Cornered Moon was made the year before her success in It Happened One Night, and she is sleekly beautiful, 'modern,' and already possessed of fine comedy timing. There are few scenes funnier than the one in which Colbert and her fiancé, a bizarre writer, hold a conversation over dinner that veers dizzily between double suicide and the proper cure for headcolds." American Film Institute