Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Norman Krasna, and starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery.

After dinner, Ann and Jeff go to the 1939 New York World's Fair, but they become stuck on the parachute ride and are exposed to hours of rain many feet up in the air.

When they go back to Jeff's apartment, he plans to put on dry clothes and return to the fair, but Ann feeds the teetotaler "medicinal" liquor ostensibly to prevent a cold, and he becomes drunk.

Alfred Hitchcock can be seen passing Montgomery in front of his apartment building—walking from left to right and smoking a cigar—as the camera pulls back, at 42:58 minutes into the film.

She sold the idea to George J. Schaefer of RKO who agreed to buy the project from Krasna, then Alfred Hitchcock became involved.

[6] In the 1939 interview What I Do to the Stars, Hitchcock is about to leave England for Hollywood and says he would like to make a film with Lombard, casting her not in one of her superficial comedies, but in a serious role, because he believes she could be as good a serious actor as Paul Muni or Leslie Howard.

The film is one of the earliest to show a pizzeria and was supposed to contain sounds of a toilet flushing, which was altered to banging pipes for reasons of censorship.

[3] When the film premiered at the Radio City Music Hall, the review in The New York Times described it thus: "Despite the performances, despite the endless camera magic with which Mr. Hitchcock tries to conceal the thinness of his material, Mr. and Mrs. Smith have their moments of dullness.

"[8] Variety reviewers were more enthusiastic about the film, noting: "Alfred Hitchcock ... pilots the story in a straight farcical groove—with resort to slapstick interludes or overplaying by the characters.

Pacing his assignment at a steady gait, Hitchcock catches all of the laugh values from the above par script of Norman Krasna.

The Screen Guild Theater next adapted it on February 8, 1942, with Errol Flynn and Lana Turner, again on December 14, 1942 with Joan Bennett, Robert Young, and Ralph Bellamy, and once more on January 1, 1945, with Preston Foster, Louise Allbritton, and Stuart Erwin.