A seductively charming comedy featuring superb performances by Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer, with the former as a prim lady mayor whose emotions are stirred by a sculptor employed to create a new statue of her late husband. Following a recent poll that named Boyer and Dunne as the two most popular stars among audiences, Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn conceived the idea of pairing them in a comedy. He turned to Virginia Van Upp, then the only female executive producer in Hollywood and a key figure at Columbia, who not only produced the film but also co-wrote it. Direction was entrusted to the underrated Hungarian émigré Charles Vidor, who directed a third of his thirty-some odd films at Columbia. While best known for his brooding dramas infused with sardonic wit and erotic undercurrents, Vidor proved equally adept in comedy and musicals. Together Again showcases the lightness of his comic touch and stands as one of the last great screwball comedies of the 1940s. It offers a final flourish of the genre’s favorite themes: disguise and mistaken identity, the clash between small-town values and big-city sophistication, and the inevitable undoing of Puritanism by continental charm.