by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Starving artist Robert Montgomery could care less if his paintings sell, so long as he's happy. Montgomery falls in love with Rosalind Russell, an heiress who's gone "slumming" in Greenwich Village. Russell becomes Montgomery's patroness as well as his wife, urging him to make his paintings more commercial. He becomes a success following her advice, but popularity goes to his head and soon Russell realizes she's created a monster. She walks out, he gets his act together, she comes back, and they return to their blissful hand-to-mouth existence. Live, Love and Learn scores its biggest laughs unintentionally with MGM's prettified concept of what a "run down" Greenwich village apartment looks like.
characteristics
- Selling
- Slums
- Reconciliation
- Popularity
- Love
- Socialite
- Struggle
- Wives
- Wife
- Success
- Studio
- Lifestyle
- Forbidden-love
- Bride
- Bohemian
