"Lady Bodyguard" is one of the less attractive and interesting films I have attempted to see in quite a while. Eddie Albert and Anne Shirley do an adequate enough job in filling out the primary roles in the film, which would seem to have a clever-enough premise, but the three beneficiaries to Albert's insurance policy, including supporting-role stalwarts Edward Brophy, Raymond Walburn, and Maude Eburne, are the ones tasked with propelling and giving the film energy. Unfortunately, their characters are so unsympathetically and distastefully portrayed that one just can't root for them or have any warm feeling for them.

I must admit that I was relieved when I sensed the film was in the wrap-up stages and I would soon be able to forget about ever having seen it...except for writing a few lines about the experience here! It is rare for me to advise skipping an older film, but unless one has some overriding interest in the subject matter or wishes to see every film of one of the actors, I would search for another option.