Comedy released in the UK as Innocence Is Bliss and starring Lucille Ball as a dimwit secretary and William Holden as her bookmaker who's having trouble with the syndicate. They land up promoting low cost housing for the homeless when Ball thinks she's working for an estate agent. The original story is credited to Everett Freeman (older brother Devery helped write the screenplay) but there is a startling resemblance to the tales of Damon Runyon - the gambler with the heart of gold, the gal who's smarter than she looks, the characters who hang out with the bookie. Holden had, up to now, been known as a dramatic actor, but here displays a talent for comedy, even though he has to play second-fiddle to Ball, whose sense of visual clowning was really apparent here for perhaps the first time. It's side-splittingly funny at times.


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