Third Finger, Left Hand 1940 (Pando)

This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margo Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a glamourous women's fashion magazine. To protect herself from suitors and jealous wives of businessmen, she wears a gold band on the third finger on her left hand and pretends that she is married. But the wolfish artist Jeff Thompson (Melvyn Douglas) is undeterred. After his efforts to romance Margot fail repeatedly, her icy exterior finally melts and the two become involved. She then has to explain the ring to all her cronies. Jeff's idea is to pretend to be her long-lost husband, but this plan backfires and leads to some comic complications.