Ageless film about a married person who is dissatisfied with the relationship. Nothing is really wrong, just the petty things that everyone has to deal with in any relationship. Like many who decide they're unhappy, she realizes the grass isn't as green on the other side as she thought. This film could be made in any era and be relevant, only the dialogue would be rather different. Merle Oberon is amazingly beautiful! Great acting all around.

From an era where marriage was expected to last. Here the wife falls for a musician and reluctantly agrees to divorce the husband who was rather neglectful. Once divorce faces him he turns on the charm and the prodigal wife soon returns.

This movie was a box office flop in its day. Don't know how often divorces in 1941 worked out like this one but one suspects that audiences found the story line here to be hard to swallow.

Meredith over acts a bit. Oberon is delightful as is Eve Arden (later to become Our Miss Brooks). Douglas is irregular -- maybe do to the director.

Might be worthwhile watching.

Spoilers: the wife cheats on her husband, and he gets revenge by letting a manlet plow her continuously in his own home while he lives in a hotel, then takes her back afterward. The only comedic thing about this movie is it shows how far back their programming goes. You can't even go back to media from the 40s without these "Hollywood types" normalizing degenerate behavior. Truly gross.

That Uncertain Feeling is a gem of a movie, but you won't want to buy this version. The picture quality isn't good -- too fuzzy. But worse yet, the manufacturer Real Enterprises superimposed a "R E" logo onto the lower right corner of every frame of the movie. This is simply unacceptable for a commercial DVD. I returned my copy to Amazon.

I see now that on a well-known auction website they're selling a much newer release of this movie under the "American Pop Classics" label. Perhaps it's a better print -- they claim it's newly restored. I haven't seen it.

The movie itself, a gentle satire of the foibles of the upper middle class in the 1930s, is wonderful, with subtle, sophisticated wit in every line, and every actor perfectly in tune with Lubitsch's vision. I think it's some of Lubitsch's best work.

Lubitsch is always pleasant, but in this film his humor has less sharpness and rhythm. You know where the laughs are supposed to be but they aren't quite there. Perhaps the actors were miscast ,although Oberon seems fine; perhaps they characters -Meredith in particular- are too doggedly simple and predictable for Lubitsch to work his magic. I don't know. And yet..the plot is fun and the sets and clothes irreproachable. Watch it with both eyes and one ear. Or better yet, watch his other films--Trouble in Paradise or Shop Around the Corner- to get a fuller sense of his talent.

Although I usually love movies from this era, I felt like this one wasn't quite up to par. It did have some funny moments like the "Keeks", but overall it felt unfocused and forced. The comedy just didn't flow the way it should in a "screwball" comedy. I found it to be a bit strange, actually.

I very much enjoy classic films from this era, but I just didn't enjoy this one. I fell asleep before I even made it half way through. Maybe I will try it another time and see if I don't like it better. For one, there seemed to be no chemistry between Merle Oberon and Melvyn Douglas. Also, as far as I got into the film, I found the plot very uninteresting.

Great Pairing. Merle Oberon Perfection!