The Opportunities of a Plastic Surgeon

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A host of beautiful women and Cary Grant starred in 1934's Kiss and Make-Up. Grant gives a better performance than this otherwise fairly disposable little romp deserves. Though, since it is pre-Code, it's a novelty now just for how much sex it has.

Grant plays a cosmetic surgeon named Maurice Lamar. It's heavily implied that he sleeps with all the women who come to him, and that all the women adore him.



Trouble arises when an aggrieved gentleman (Edward Everett Horton) confronts him about his attentions to his wife, Eve (Genevieve Tobin). Meanwhile, romantic tension starts to blossom between Lamar and his down to earth secretary, Annie (Helen Mack).



The jokes are mostly pretty dopey but the women are all beautiful. Grant actually sings in a couple scenes and you can see why he never starred in any major musicals. There's a gag at the expense of Edward Everett Horton at the end of the film I thought was genuinely funny.

Kiss and Make-Up is available on The Criterion Channel.