Vivacious Lady is entertainment of the highest order and broadest appeal.

Rogers is the accomplished centrepiece of the film, slightly atypical as the soft-focus romantic heroine, but with welcome eruptions of her tough and shrewd persona throughout.

Vintage George Stevens comedy, dating from the brief period in which his deliberate style was a deepening virtue, stopping short of the ossification that cursed his later work.

The movie is full of wonderful bits of business, but they’re mostly physical or gestural, the jokes of teenagers who haven’t slept all night and are getting a little punchy.