Garson Kanin directed this comedy that is far more lighthearted than his sophisticated scripts for the George Cukor/Tracy and Hepburn team (Pat and Mike, Adam's Rib). Ginger Rogers is an effervescent telephone operator who changes her personality as she imagines her married life with three different suitors. On the film's release in 1941, Dilys Powell wrote of this “fantastic comedy” that the figures moved and spoke “with all the energy of life: they are life,” adding that Kanin's talent was one “that used to be found in certain of the Continental directors, René Clair, for instance, scarcely at all with the Americans. Now we find it in Kanin, who is, with Preston Sturges and now Orson Welles, among the most notable of the new generation of directors.”