Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Starring: Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters
Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke

Synopsis: In this spy thriller comedy, Homer Smith (Robert Young) is an ambitious small-town newspaper reporter from California who gets the opportunity to go abroad to report on the war.  He ends up shipwrecked and comes in contact with a British Intelligence Officer, who imparts a secret message for Smith to pass along to contacts in Cairo.  Through a series of miscommunications he comes to believe that Marcia Warren (Jeanette MacDonald), an American actress and singer whom he has admired for many years, is a Nazi spy and she, in turns believes Smith (who uses the pseudonym Juniper Jones) is the Nazi spy.  Unfortunately neither of them realize they are becoming more and more embroiled with real, and dangerous, Nazi spies.

Purr Blur: Another very brief cat moment . . . when Marcia Warren and her maid (Ethel Waters) sneak back to her house to go through Juniper Jones’ room (he has taken a job as her manservant to gather information about her) they look for a way inside the house.  Warren first tries opening some windows but the maid insists she keeps the house “locked up like a tomb.”  The women then see a cat enter through the unlocked, slightly open back door.

Final Mewsings: Cats don’t break their backs trying to get inside when the door is open.

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