MADE FOR EACH OTHER (1939) Carole Lombard & James Stewart | Comedy, Drama, Romance | COLORIZED

Made for Each Other is a 1939 American romantic comedy film directed by John Cromwell, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Carole Lombard, James Stewart, and Charles Coburn. Lombard and Stewart portray a couple who get married after only knowing each other for one day.

SYNOPSIS
While on a business trip, an ambitious young lawyer meets and immediately falls in love with a stranger. They wed the following day, and tragedy soon strikes.

John Mason is a young attorney in New York City and a milquetoast. He has been doing his job well, and he has a chance of being made a partner in his law firm, especially if he marries Eunice, the daughter of his employer, Judge Doolittle. However, John meets Jane during a business trip, and they fall in love and marry immediately. Eunice eventually marries another lawyer in the firm, Carter. John's impertinent mother is disappointed with his choice, and an important trial forces him to cancel the honeymoon. He wins the case, but by that time Judge Doolittle has chosen John's kowtowing yes-man coworker Carter as the new partner.

Jane encourages John to demand a raise and a promotion, but with finances tightened by the Depression, Doolittle requires that all employees accept pay cuts. After Jane has a baby, John becomes discouraged by his unpaid bills, and his mother, who lives with them in their small apartment, is destroying their marriage.

On New Year's Eve, 1938–39, the baby is rushed to the hospital with pneumonia. The baby will die within hours unless a serum is delivered by plane from Salt Lake City. Doolittle agrees to provide funding to deliver the serum, but with a storm raging, and with a wife and children to consider, the pilot refuses to fly.

CAST & CREW
Carole Lombard as Jane Mason
James Stewart as John Horace Mason
Charles Coburn as Judge Joseph M. Doolittle
Lucile Watson as Mrs. Harriet Mason
Eddie Quillan as Conway
Alma Kruger as Sister Madeline

Directed by John Cromwell
Written by Rose Franken (story), Jo Swerling
Produced by David O. Selznick
Cinematography Leon Shamroy
Edited by James E. Newcom
Music by Oscar Levant (uncredited)
Production company Selznick International Pictures
Distributed by United Artists
Release date February 10, 1939
Running time 92 minutes
Country United States
Language English

NOTES
The film is now in the public domain in the United States, with the original film negative owned by Disney.

Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times called the film "thoroughly delightful", but it lost $292,000 at the box office.