It Started with a Kiss (1959)

Let's get the main objection out of the way fast: the plot gimmick in It Started with a Kiss is absolutely ludicrous, the kind of thing that exists only so that screenwriters have a peg to hang a film on. Some people won't be able to get past this flaw, but many more will simply shake their heads and laugh it off. And why not? Aside from the premise, screenwriter Charles Lederer has done nothing wrong and quite a bit right -- and ridiculous premises in a sex comedy are pretty much par for the course anyway. Lederer makes up for it with script that is genuinely funny, even when one is aware of how much it occasionally reaches for laughs. The jokes don't come off as smarmy as they so often do in sex comedies, and the situations are well set up and almost always pay off. Clearly, Lederer is helped in this enterprise by his delightful stars. Both Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds are in fine form, physically and dramatically, and they definitely have chemistry. Watching the two of them jump through the screenplay's hoops is a great deal of fun; they seem to be enjoying themselves and so the viewer does too. George Marshall's swift and light directorial touch keeps things hopping, and with the support in the hands of Fred Clark, Edgar Buchanan, Francis Bavier and a very good Eva Gabor, it all is a tremendously fun time. ~ Craig Butler, All Movie Guide