No Time for Love is a 1943 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.

No Time for Love was the fourth of seven films starring Colbert and MacMurray, both of whom had previously worked with director Mitchell Leisen.

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction–Interior Decoration, Black-and-White (Hans Dreier, Robert Usher, Samuel M.

When she sneaks closer to the drilling point to get a better view, her presence distracts some of the workers and causes an accident that nearly kills Jim Ryan (Fred MacMurray), the cocky well-built sandhog they call "Superman".

Back at home, Katherine shows her photographs to her sister Hoppy (Ilka Chase) and their snobbish sophisticated friends—her effete suitor and Mirror publisher Henry Fulton (Paul McGrath), playwright Dunbar (Morton Lowry), and composer Roger Winant (Richard Haydn)—who make fun of the brawling "ape".

In the coming weeks, Katherine is haunted by pleasant dreams of Ryan as a superhero rescuing her from Henry as an evil assailant.

When Ryan shows up at her apartment, Katherine assures him she did not know the photo would be published, and offers him a job as her assistant to offset his lost wages.

The project's one hope at stabilizing the muck is a new machine and chemical process invented by Ryan—an engineer—who was working as a sandhog to better understand the problems of underwater construction.

She sneaks into the testing area and finds a good vantage point, while Ryan and the sandhogs start up the machine and remove some planks holding back the muck.

At first the test appears to fail, but as Katherine takes several photographs, the chemical reaction begins to solidify the muck.

After everyone leaves, Katherine convinces Roger and one of the sandhogs to accompany her back into the tunnel to retrieve the camera, which she believes can prove that the machine was working.

The screenplay for No Time for Love was written by Claude Binyon, based on a story by Robert Lees and Frederic I. Rinaldo.

[3] Oscar Levant was originally cast for the role of Roger, but when filming was delayed he was forced to withdraw due to other commitments.

[3] The 25-foot long tunnel set was constructed on Paramount's largest stage, and was filled with mud for the climactic scene.

[7] Crowther concludes: The whole is resolved in a normal boy-gets-girl-happily way, which, although the weakest part of the picture, is a swift and classic means to an end.

Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray are the clashing girl and boy in the case, and it is largely through their crisp playing that the chemical elements finally jell.

[8] The reviewer praised Mitchell Leisen's production and direction, the "capital" performances of Colbert and MacMurray, and Claude Binyon's screenplay with its "sufficiency of crack dialog—and the laughs that go with it".

[9]Erickson also praised the impressive tunnel scenes and Katherine's surreal dream sequence, which effectively demonstrates her secret desire to be swept off her feet by a macho he-man and saved from her effete male suitor.

[9] No Time for Love was nominated for the Oscar for Best Art Direction–Interior Decoration, Black-and-White (Hans Dreier, Robert Usher, Samuel M. Comer) during the 17th Academy Awards.

[2] The award, however, went to Gaslight (Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and William Ferrari; Interior Decoration: Paul Huldschinsky and Edwin B. Willis).