Made for Each Other

Made for Each Other (1939) starring Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Lucile Watson. Movie-quality soap opera about Lombard and Stewart getting married, then battling illness, lack of money, Stewart's meddling mother (Watson) to try and find happiness. Running gag has the family unable to keep a maid because Stewart's mother keeps driving them off. The film tends towards the maudlin in final third, but everything suddenly works out in last two or three minutes. A fairly enjoyable outing, worth it to see Stewart and Lombard on screen together. (The disc provides excellent English subtitles for the hearing-impaired.) Grade: B