Rippling Romance was a Color Rhapsody, a series produced by Screen Gems for Columbia Pictures, a response to Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies and Warner Bros.' Merrie Melodies. This was the studio's final short nominated for an Academy Award, in 1945. May be a lost film.
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman.
The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills.