[Bounci]

This week's video is another oddly titled Pre Code film, a screwball comedy called We're Not Dressing (1934), starring Carole Lombard and Bing Crosby among a group of people who end up shipwrecked on an island. It's a surprisingly enjoyable film, and Bing (not everyone's cup of tea, I'll admit) is actually very funny in this. Another who is like marmite is Ethel Merman (who I have to be honest I didn't recognize until the end credits), and it is her who features in this clip, doing a musical number with Leon Errol called "Let's Go Domestic" while attempting to build a straw house after being shipwrecked. It's a pleasing number, and during the number Errol gives Ethel's backside a good back hander, but by the end their house comes tumbling down, leading to Ethel to tell him that "The house has rolled over and done gone to sleep." A zany film, but fun to watch all the same.