This one is for people who like high society comedies. You learn right from the start what is it all about: rich girl wants her daddy to buy her a husband. An ad in a newspaper and you have loads of unemployed males striving for the job. She chooses a small skinny man because she does not want a sexy athlete or anything. She will not let him touch her. He is just a social ornament, and she is free to flirt around.

Trouble is, he soon gets tired of standing around the house doing nothing. He decides to use his freedom to flirt around too. The movie has some delicious lines, and it is quite interesting to see it pointing to what is, after all, an open relationship. You kind of expect this comedy to behave in the end, but I like the way humor is used here to show people different lifestyles.

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