Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1952)

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t Peter Lawford grimly, but sedately, passes the incredulous fiancee (Richard Anderson) of the girl who has just dumped a liotvl of spaghetti on his head. JUST THIS DNCE Situation comedy is the basis for humor — the unexpected, the bizarre, the switch from the normal is what makes people laugh. In Metro's "Just This Once", director Don Weis has made the most of a rich boy-poor girl story with some wonderful twists. Here's the set-up: Peter Lawford. plavboy w ith an income of 81. 000. 000 a year, is constantly in hot water with the Treasury Department and various collection agencies. He is assigned a young lawyer, pretty but penurious Janet Leigh, to take complete charge of his expenditures. When he is put on a 850-a-week allowance, has his charge accounts cancelled, is stripped of his furniture and other belongings, he promptly moves in with his financial guardian, who is required to see that he gets food and lodging. The complications pile up thick and fast: Janets fiance Richard Anderson, gets his dander up: Lawford. who owns the company Anderson works for. raises his salary to $500 weekly so that he can marry the girl, but Leigh makes Anderson refuse it; Lawford takes a phony job in a chemistry laboratorv. talks endlessly about molecules and drives Leigh to do another turnabout in which she goes on her own spending spree. It's all worked out finally when Lawford is taken into the Navy — as head of Naval Expenditures.