Logic Takes A Holiday

From A. O. Scott's review of The Bounty Hounter in The New York Times:

Back in the old days, when our grandparents were courting, the volatile magnetism of heterosexual monogamy — the power of men and women to attract and repel each other in equal measure — was the motor that got many a screwball comedy rolling. Remember “His Girl Friday”? “Bringing Up Baby”? “Holiday”? (If not, it’s never too late.)

And it's never too late to get these plots straight. The first two definitely had the attract and repel plot, but Holiday? Not really. That story is about Cary Grant loving one sister then falling for the other, played by Katharine Hepburn, who suits him better.

Maybe Scott was thinking about Grant and Irene Dunne in maybe the most basic screwball comedy of all, The Awful Truth.