Probably the only actress to start out as a comedian's (Harold Lloyd) "girl" and really make it on her own. In 1921 she was caught speeding and spent 10 days in prison!!! and the publicity was not unfavourable. She started to be cast as a playgirl, a cross between Gloria Swanson and Joan Crawford and really hit her stride in a series of delightful comedies - "The Palm Beach Girl", "The Campus Flirt", "Swim Girl, Swim", "She's a Sheik" etc, most directed by Clarence Badger and leading men usually alternating between James Hall and Richard Arlen - both of them up and coming Paramount stars.
I just loved this movie from the opening credits - Her Problem - Richard Arlen, Her Nemesis - William Powell!!! Barbara Manning (Bebe Daniels) is the daughter of a millionaire health crank, who is forced to lead a germ free life until she is 21. "If she had any symptoms she was disinfected, if she didn't, she was disappointed"!! All this antiseptic supervision has turned her into a galloping hypochondriac!! On her 21st birthday she is turned over to her uncle from Texas who wants to take her to his ranch where she can experience outdoor living, good health and romance!!! To avoid going she escapes to the family sanitarium but the health farm has been turned into a rum runner's joint that is constantly being invaded by rival gangs.
Wallace Roberts (Richard Arlen) is mistaken (by Barbara) for a taxi service and after some on road hijinks, where she performs a 100 yard dash to retrieve her fallen medical supplies, he tells her she must be as fit as a fiddle!! - she does not take kindly to that!!! When he sees her listening through a stethoscope (he thinks it is a two way radio) he comes to the conclusion that she is a "revenue dame". After taking her the long way round - "I'm drowning - and you're criticizing my technique"!!! They finally arrive and, of course, she is the only guest who is there for their health!!! When the leader of the bootleggers (William Powell) realises she is an heiress worth $30 million , he decides to be a lot nicer to her and Barbara becomes a nurse distributing her medicine among the ailing "patients". Meanwhile, as Wallace starts sprucing up his appearance, Barbara's Texas uncle is hot on her trail. One night there is a raid and Wallace, who is now smitten with Barbara, gives her a package to be read in case anything happens to him. It turns out he is not part of the gang but an undercover reporter who has written an expose of the rum runners.
After fending off the criminals with bottles and kegs of beer and earning the praise of her uncle, her squeamish butler says "My dear, remember your heart" Barbara replies "My heart will go where I go - and like it"!!!
William Powell definitely had a presence as "Her Nemesis" and another actor Heinie Conklin was also good as a drunken man who insisted on singing "Sweet Adeline" and got Bebe drunk in a quite funny scene. The print I saw was very poor and the titles were almost illegible, but the movie and Bebe sparkled, with lots of witty titles.
Highly Recommended.
I just loved this movie from the opening credits - Her Problem - Richard Arlen, Her Nemesis - William Powell!!! Barbara Manning (Bebe Daniels) is the daughter of a millionaire health crank, who is forced to lead a germ free life until she is 21. "If she had any symptoms she was disinfected, if she didn't, she was disappointed"!! All this antiseptic supervision has turned her into a galloping hypochondriac!! On her 21st birthday she is turned over to her uncle from Texas who wants to take her to his ranch where she can experience outdoor living, good health and romance!!! To avoid going she escapes to the family sanitarium but the health farm has been turned into a rum runner's joint that is constantly being invaded by rival gangs.
Wallace Roberts (Richard Arlen) is mistaken (by Barbara) for a taxi service and after some on road hijinks, where she performs a 100 yard dash to retrieve her fallen medical supplies, he tells her she must be as fit as a fiddle!! - she does not take kindly to that!!! When he sees her listening through a stethoscope (he thinks it is a two way radio) he comes to the conclusion that she is a "revenue dame". After taking her the long way round - "I'm drowning - and you're criticizing my technique"!!! They finally arrive and, of course, she is the only guest who is there for their health!!! When the leader of the bootleggers (William Powell) realises she is an heiress worth $30 million , he decides to be a lot nicer to her and Barbara becomes a nurse distributing her medicine among the ailing "patients". Meanwhile, as Wallace starts sprucing up his appearance, Barbara's Texas uncle is hot on her trail. One night there is a raid and Wallace, who is now smitten with Barbara, gives her a package to be read in case anything happens to him. It turns out he is not part of the gang but an undercover reporter who has written an expose of the rum runners.
After fending off the criminals with bottles and kegs of beer and earning the praise of her uncle, her squeamish butler says "My dear, remember your heart" Barbara replies "My heart will go where I go - and like it"!!!
William Powell definitely had a presence as "Her Nemesis" and another actor Heinie Conklin was also good as a drunken man who insisted on singing "Sweet Adeline" and got Bebe drunk in a quite funny scene. The print I saw was very poor and the titles were almost illegible, but the movie and Bebe sparkled, with lots of witty titles.
Highly Recommended.