Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943)

Peavey as Mrs Gildersleeve A daft light comedy set around the misfortunes of the accident-prone Throckmorton P Gildersleeve (Harold Peary). He has been persuaded to go to New York to a convention of pharmacists with a friend, the lugubrious Mr Peavey (Richard LeGrand). An eccentric and dizzy wealthy widow, Mrs Chandler (Billie Burke) has taken an instant liking to him and is chasing him as a possible husband; he is horrified at the idea but is too polite to tell her so.

Another woman, evidently a golddigger, mistakenly thinks Gildersleeve is a millionaire and is also pursuing him at the hotel, and in a moment of mad confusion Gildersleeve proposes marriage to Mrs Chandler. There is only one way out (it seems), and that is for Mr Peavey to dress as Gildersleeve's wife. He does so, and despite his deep baritone no-one suspects, but Mrs Chandler has an eccentric brother, and he has a toy bow and arrow. He plays a joke on "Mrs Gildersleeve" by attaching an arrow to the hem of her skirt and firing it, so the skirt unravels, exposing Peavey in more ways than one. All the other deceptions Gildersleeve has put in place fall apart, but as this is light comedy, everyone lives happily ever after anyway.

HF December 2009


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