John Beal's comic chops:

I just looked up Beal's IMDb page - I couldn't place him. He had a long and fine career, but almost nothing there suggests he got any dividends from the screwball comedy gold he mines here as Waldo - like the dimmer little brother Ralph Bellamy never had. There's so much to like in this movie, including lots of sneaky dialogue, the breeziness around a divorce that makes lots of characters very happy, and the Swiss-timepiece perfection of Powell and Loy's sparring. Waldo finding his yumpf is the icing on this sweet fluffy cake.