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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Yes, this movie is a bore. And I say that as a movie fan who almost always enjoys the work of Irene Dunne and Ralph Bellamy. But frankly, this movie is little more than stuffy high class pap. Unfortunately, that seemed to be a common trait with quite a few movies in the early years of the Depression -- an obsession with the wealthy.The story here is pretty simple -- Tony (Dunne) and Jim (Bellamy) Dunlap are happily married. But, dependable old Jim had once been in love with another woman who comes back to haunt everyone. So the old love steals Jim away from Dunne (yawn) and the question is -- will she keep him and will Dunne fight back. It's all rather trite and not at all clever.There's not a single performance in the film that I could admire. Certainly the worst film of either Dunne or Bellamy that I've ever seen.

IRENE DUNNE may have had a blossoming film career that led to much better things in the '40s, but her early '30s films were potboilers and this sophisticated comedy among the idle rich is one of them.It's a thin comedy about a catty woman who threatens the happiness of IRENE DUNNE and RALPH BELLAMY, coming between them to the point where Dunne is all ready to sue for divorce until the woman (CONSTANCE CUMMINGS) turns to SIDNEY BLACKMER for her marriage partner. The script is full of catty one-liners but none of it is worthy of Dunne's presence. She did much better with screwball comedy material that came later.A serious waste of time with a weak first half-hour that only picks up steam when Constance Cummings enters the scene. Ralph Bellamy is a bore as a bumbling husband in one of his rare leading man roles.Summing up: Only for serious Irene Dunne fans.

There are three terrific women's roles in this nifty little comedy/drama that stars Irene Dunne as a loving wife whose husband (Ralph Bellamy) gets involved with an old girlfriend (Constance Cummings). There's nothing new in the plot here, but the dialog is sharp, funny (catty), and fast paced. Dunne is super and gets to show off her comic and musical talents as well as her dramatic chops. Cummings is wonderful as the bitch girlfriend who uses men like Kleenex. Bellamy is solid in a rare starring role as the dumb-cluck husband. Kay Johnson (the star of early DeMille talkies) has a great role as the droll neighbor. Sidney Blackmer is terrific as a smarmy boyfriend Cummings is stringing along. Charles Starrett (usually seen in Westerns), Vivian Tobin, and Louis Mason are good in support. But what really lifts This Man Is Mine a cut above other women's pictures of the day is the stingingly funny dialog among the three female stars. It's a total joy to watch Dunne, Cummings, and Johnson snap and claw at each other in a vein similar to The Women and First Lady (an underrated Kay Francis comedy). I still think Irene Dunne may have been the most versatile actress of the 1930s, and gorgeous Constance Cummings should have been a much bigger star. This film is not to be missed!

I probably saw this on American Movie Classics and did not tape it, not realizing that my chance would not come again. This movie is fun. Irene Dunne was in the early years when she was still playing heroic roles and here she plays the wife who is done wrong. It was refreshing to see Ralph Bellamy who so often played the put upon boy-friend who lost the girl to Cary Grant, as instead the object of desire fought over by the two women. But as I remember the movie it is Constance Cummings who gets to steal the movie because she is given some of the most interesting reasons for husband stealing, forgiveness of same and even has the audacity to lecture Irene Dunne -in a very sophisticated, urbane way of course. I wish it would come out of DVD. Failing that I wish Turner Classic Movies or AMC would run it again so I can tape it.