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* ShesGotLegs: Lorri is introduced doing some kind of stretching exercise with a workout machine, a shot obviously meant to show off Olivia de Havilland in shorts.
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* SplitScreenPhoneCall: This happens when Bob's two girlfriends Lorri and Jean both call his office at the exact same time, and Bob tries to have two conversations at once with a phone in each hand.
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* WorkoutFanservice: Lorri is introduced doing some kind of stretching exercise with a workout machine, a shot obviously meant to [[LegFocus show off her legs]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:Who will marry who?]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Who will marry who?]]
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The only screwball comedy that Errol Flynn ever did; after this film did poorly at the box office he went back to action/adventure movies.
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The only screwball comedy that Errol Flynn ever did; after this film did poorly at the box office he went back to action/adventure movies.
movies. Creator/MargaretHamilton, the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Wicked Witch]], appears briefly as Lorri's governess.
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''Four's a Crowd'' is a ScrewballComedy film from 1938 directed by Creator/MichaelCurtiz, starring Creator/ErrolFlynn, Creator/RosalindRussell, Creator/OliviaDeHavilland, and Patric Knowles.
The wacky, convoluted plot starts off with reporter Jean Christy (Russell, playing an IntrepidReporter two years before ''Film/HisGirlFriday''), who comes to work one day with a scoop only to find that her newspaper is about to go out of business. Jean goes marching into the office of the owner, Pat Buckley (Knowles), and demands that Pat rehire the former editor Bob Lansford (Flynn), who can turn the newspaper around.
It turns out that Bob has left journalism and is now running a lucrative PR business. He is desperately trying to land as a client the ultra-rich John Dillingwell. As it happens, John Dillingwell's granddaughter Lorri (de Havilland) is Pat Buckley's girlfriend. Romantic complications and comic silliness ensue as Jean tries to bring Bob back to the paper, Bob tries to reel in Lorri's grandfather, and everyone falls in love.
The only screwball comedy that Errol Flynn ever did; after this film did poorly at the box office he went back to action/adventure movies.
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!!Tropes:
* AngryGuardDog: Dillingwell has a pack of hounds that will attack at his command. He likes to send them after Bob.
* AstroTurf: To help Dillingwell decide that he needs a PR firm to help rescue his reputation, Bob hires people to throw vegetables at him.
* ChineseLaundry: A throwaway gag has Jean attempting to find out who "H. Louis Brown" is, and going to the Hong Lou Brown Chinese laundry.
* FixingTheGame: In order to beat Dillingwell at a model train race, Bob smears butter on Dillingwell's track.
* HaveAGayOldTime: Multiple uses of "make love" to mean "court romantically."
--> '''Lorri''': If you think I'm going to stand by and see you make love to another woman you're mistaken!
* HiddenDepths: It turns out that Bob, with his glib charm and his fast talking and his girlfriend juggling, actually does care about doing good in the world and is quite sincere about getting Dillingwell to fund a hospital for polio victims.
* IdleRich: If Dillingwell has a job it's not apparent what it is; he seems to sit at home all day and play with model trains.
* IntrepidReporter: Eventually Jean latches on to the story of who the mysterious hospital benefactor H. Louis Brown is (it's Dillingwell, planned by Bob for good publicity).
* LoveDodecahedron: It gets confusing for a wile there.
* MeetCute: Jean barges into Pat's office only to find out that he is without pants, as she caught him in the middle of changing into a tux.
* PoolScene: There's one at Dillingwell's mansion which is obviously meant to get Lorri and Jean (and Bob for that matter) into swimsuits.
* ProducePelting: Bob hires people to chuck heads of lettuce at Dillingwell as he exits his car.
* RunningGag: Dillingwell constantly sending his pack of dogs after Bob.
* ScrewballComedy: Lots of romantic silliness and comic misunderstandings. At the end the four of them go to the judge for a double wedding but have to figure out who's marrying who first.
* ShesGotLegs: Lorri is introduced doing some kind of stretching exercise with a workout machine, a shot obviously meant to show off Olivia de Havilland in shorts.
* SplitScreenPhoneCall: This happens when Bob's two girlfriends Lorri and Jean both call his office at the exact same time, and Bob tries to have two conversations at once with a phone in each hand.
The wacky, convoluted plot starts off with reporter Jean Christy (Russell, playing an IntrepidReporter two years before ''Film/HisGirlFriday''), who comes to work one day with a scoop only to find that her newspaper is about to go out of business. Jean goes marching into the office of the owner, Pat Buckley (Knowles), and demands that Pat rehire the former editor Bob Lansford (Flynn), who can turn the newspaper around.
It turns out that Bob has left journalism and is now running a lucrative PR business. He is desperately trying to land as a client the ultra-rich John Dillingwell. As it happens, John Dillingwell's granddaughter Lorri (de Havilland) is Pat Buckley's girlfriend. Romantic complications and comic silliness ensue as Jean tries to bring Bob back to the paper, Bob tries to reel in Lorri's grandfather, and everyone falls in love.
The only screwball comedy that Errol Flynn ever did; after this film did poorly at the box office he went back to action/adventure movies.
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!!Tropes:
* AngryGuardDog: Dillingwell has a pack of hounds that will attack at his command. He likes to send them after Bob.
* AstroTurf: To help Dillingwell decide that he needs a PR firm to help rescue his reputation, Bob hires people to throw vegetables at him.
* ChineseLaundry: A throwaway gag has Jean attempting to find out who "H. Louis Brown" is, and going to the Hong Lou Brown Chinese laundry.
* FixingTheGame: In order to beat Dillingwell at a model train race, Bob smears butter on Dillingwell's track.
* HaveAGayOldTime: Multiple uses of "make love" to mean "court romantically."
--> '''Lorri''': If you think I'm going to stand by and see you make love to another woman you're mistaken!
* HiddenDepths: It turns out that Bob, with his glib charm and his fast talking and his girlfriend juggling, actually does care about doing good in the world and is quite sincere about getting Dillingwell to fund a hospital for polio victims.
* IdleRich: If Dillingwell has a job it's not apparent what it is; he seems to sit at home all day and play with model trains.
* IntrepidReporter: Eventually Jean latches on to the story of who the mysterious hospital benefactor H. Louis Brown is (it's Dillingwell, planned by Bob for good publicity).
* LoveDodecahedron: It gets confusing for a wile there.
* MeetCute: Jean barges into Pat's office only to find out that he is without pants, as she caught him in the middle of changing into a tux.
* PoolScene: There's one at Dillingwell's mansion which is obviously meant to get Lorri and Jean (and Bob for that matter) into swimsuits.
* ProducePelting: Bob hires people to chuck heads of lettuce at Dillingwell as he exits his car.
* RunningGag: Dillingwell constantly sending his pack of dogs after Bob.
* ScrewballComedy: Lots of romantic silliness and comic misunderstandings. At the end the four of them go to the judge for a double wedding but have to figure out who's marrying who first.
* ShesGotLegs: Lorri is introduced doing some kind of stretching exercise with a workout machine, a shot obviously meant to show off Olivia de Havilland in shorts.
* SplitScreenPhoneCall: This happens when Bob's two girlfriends Lorri and Jean both call his office at the exact same time, and Bob tries to have two conversations at once with a phone in each hand.
