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(Complete credited cast) | Janet Gaynor | ... | Grace Livingston |
 | Charles Farrell | ... | Tommy Tucker |
| Minna Gombell | ... | Mrs. Barstow |
| Dudley Digges | ... | Dr. Anderson |
| Leila Bennett | ... | Hattie |
| Robert McWade | ... | Fred Livingston |
| George Meeker | ... | Dick Loring |
| Maude Eburne | ... | Emily Livingston |
| Henry Kolker | ... | Peter Barstow |
| Elda Voelkel | ... | Helen (as Edna Volkel) |
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*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Janet Gaynor goes against type in this one, playing an unsympathetic character who's completely self-absorbed. Her character has the hots for another man, but for some reason still ends up marrying Charles Farrell. She then spends the rest of the movie nudging and nagging him to get rich so she can live her dream of traveling the world, and when he seems to fail, doubts and undercuts him.
The crux of the film is a sequence involving preparation for a dinner for Farrell's business associate and then the dinner itself. During it, Farrell & Gaynor's characters squabble amongst themselves, whining and complaining about everything, giving a most unglamorous impression of what it's like to be married after the first year, when the honeymoon's over. Also appearing in this scene is the fun Minna Gombell as the wise-cracking wife of Farrell's business associate. The scene also features a white actress in black-face portraying a slow maid, Leila Bennett, who was Loretta Young's friend in the Cagney vehicle "Taxi!" (1932).
A different type of role for Gaynor, and the squabbling, unsympathetic portrait of a year old marriage, make this an interesting movie. The only thing missing is a comeuppance for Gaynor's character; despite being a bitch, she still gets to live happily ever after!