Four's a Crowd (1938)






Reporter Jean Christy (Rosalind Russell) works for a newspaper in danger of being thrown away by its young owner, Pat Buckley (Patric Knowles), after Buckley has a falling-out with the editor-in-chief, Robert Lansford (Errol Flynn). Meanwhile, Lansford hopes to gain tycoon John Dillingwell's (Walter Connolly) business for his public relations firm, and uses his position at Buckley's paper to drum up good press for Dillingwell. In the process, he discovers that Dillingwell's granddaughter Lorri (Olivia de Havilland) is Buckley's fiancée. Lansford decides to try to charm Lorri, while Christy makes a play for Buckley.


Books with substantial mentioning of Four's a Crowd

John Howard Reid
These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards, A Film-Lover's Guide to the Best of the Rest
2005

Duane Byrge, Robert Milton Miller
The Screwball Comedy Films, A History and Filmography, 1934-1942
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1991

James Robert Parish
Hollywood's Great Love Teams
New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974

Tony Thomas, Rudy Behlmer and Clifford McCarty
The Films of Errol Flynn
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1973