SHE COULDN'T SAY NO is very well done little "B" movie comedy from 1940 from Warner Bros., a studio not known for comedies "A" or "B". This 62-minute film stars Eve Arden and Roger Pryor as young lawyers in love who find themselves representing different sides of a breach of promise suit filed by elderly spinster Vera Lewis against her 15-year beau Clem Bevans, a wealthy 80-year-old who can never say yes. This little programmer completely foreshadows the 1949 classic ADAM'S RIB with Hepburn and Tracy although most intriguingly each lawyer here represents the opposite sex client. Perhaps with a bigger budget and revised script, the producers of SHE COULDN'T SAY NO might have whipped up a classic themselves but there is much to enjoy in this little gem particularly the performances. It is a special treat to see Eve Arden playing a very rare starring role in a film rather than the acerbic sidekick that was her specialty. Eve gets a bit of a glamour treatment too with sharp clothes and blonde hair and is superbly cast as the sharp as whip professional woman. One can hardly say the movies wasted her but she shows here she might have given Rosalind Russell a run for her money as the screen's top businesswoman comedienne in similar films. And how nice to see Clem Bevans and Vera Lewis in very large supporting roles; both character performers usually played small unbilled bits. (Of note too, Bevans at 61 is cast as an 80-year-old while Miss Lewis is 68 and plays someone perhaps a few years younger.) There's also the wonderful Ziffie Tilbury, one of the oldest character players of the period playing Vera's mother. This is one of those little unheralded gems Turner Classic Movies unearths now and then that shows why this channel is so special.