No Time for Comedy

Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige. He and Linda are happily married until a patroness of the arts convinces Esterbrook to forget about comedy and concentrate on writing a tragedy. The end result nearly destroys his career and his marriage.

No Time for Comedy is a 1940 drama romance movie directed by William Keighley, starring James Stewart, Charles Ruggles, Rosalind Russell. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.2/10 from 1,361 votes and runs 1h 33m.