It starts with the wedding march, because Sheila Curtis (Anne Nagel), a spoiled girl, is supposed to be getting married, but her husband-to-be is late at his own wedding. Furious with him she plans to teach him a good lesson. Most of all, she thinks of all the people waiting, the embarrassment, and makes up her mind to give them a wedding after all. She calls her lawyer Henry Tuttle (Warren Hull) and asks him to marry her. He does, and they leave for their honeymoon, where he learns that she doesn’t take it at all seriously, to her it’s a simple matter of making her fiancée Eric Reynolds (Henry Mollison) pay for being late, but has no doubt on what it’ll happen next. She brings his picture with her (of when he was a little baby... :rollingeyes: ) and candidly tells Henry that she’s very grateful and that “this will teach him (Eric) a lesson” and that “next time he’ll be more punctual”. She says “our marriage is a purely social gesture to save a purely social situation”. He’s upset, asks her for how long will she require his services but she doesn’t get the sarcasm and very normally explains that it won’t take long, then she’ll take care of the matter. She keeps treating him like her lawyer who will do what she tells him, and then Eric joins them at the hotel and keeps saying how much he resents Henry’s attitude. After he goes away, Sheila tells him how she resents his attitude towards Eric and he tells her that he’s tired, “I get pushed into marrying you and then you start pushing me out. I’ve been in love with you for years, you knew that, that’s why you asked me to marry you and that’s why I married you” and “you’re a spoiled, willfull, headstrong brat”. She’s shocked: “you’ve always been so kind and patient”. Starting next morning, things take a different turn when he starts going out and enjoying himself, showing off his diving abilities at the pool, surrounded by screaming girls, and spending a lot of time with Miss Helen Van Orden (Claudia Dell). Sheila’s plan was to spend her honeymoon with Eric as planned, but nothing goes as she had envisioned it. It’s not clearly explained but it seems like Henry had the support of the locals: Sheila and Eric are even tricked and put in jail for trespassing, and Helen knows very well that he’s in love with Sheila.
Henry had simply been someone who worked for her I guess, so Sheila never knew that he could swim, ride a horse, sing, dance... apparently this Henry can do everything... even, obviously, make her fall in love with him, because that’s what happens and that’s what everyone knows it’ll happen. She gets to know him and grows jealous of Helen, to the point of showing up unexpectedly at her party where she knew he was. Sheila dances with him, and then stares irritated while he dances with Helen, so much that when a man makes a comment on what a marvelous night it is, she replies sharply “for what?!” before leaving to return to her room and start crying. It’s near the end of the movie, she tells Eric that she was serious when she broke off their engagement, and Henry comes back right on time to send him away, then Henry starts packing and she tells him that she doesn’t want to go away, that she doesn’t want to divorce him, but he keeps playing her, saying that he wants to divorce her. At the end she says in a crying tone “if you divorce me you’ll be sorry, I’ll do something desperate” and she walks out of the balcony and won’t come back in to safety until he says that he loves her and that he’ll never leave her. All the people down look at her and laugh for her stunt, and the last scene she finally says that she loves him.
ITA luna di miele a tre
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