Love Crazy (1941 film)

Love Crazy is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Jack Conway and starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and Gail Patrick.

Powell and Loy play a couple whose marriage is on the verge of being broken up by the husband's old girlfriend and the wife's disapproving mother.

Architect Steve Ireland and his wife Susan eagerly look forward to their fourth wedding anniversary, but her mother Mrs. Cooper shows up and puts a damper on their eccentric and jokey plans for the evening: their personal recreation of a Baffin Island Inuit ritual, this year done backwards.

However, this becomes very evident when her shoes are found in his jacket pockets, taken when he helped her up out of the elevator, and it looks bad for him; later, while Susan is running an errand for her mother across town, Steve skips out from the dull chore of minding Mrs. Cooper on a pretext to talk to Isobel.

Nonetheless, Renny gets the divorce judge to agree to a thirty-day delay to have Steve examined by the City Lunacy Commission.

Steve escapes by tricking the head of the psychiatric hospital, Dr. Wuthering, leaving him stuck upside-down in a net hanging from a tree.

When Mrs. Cooper inadvertently confirms Steve left the apartment building to just talk to Isobel at a public bar down the street on the night of their anniversary, Susan finally believes her husband and decides to bunk-in with the "sister" and take "her" to Saskatchewan in the morning.

Love Crazy is a standout laugh hit of top proportions, a happy successor to previous Powell-Loy teamings.