Bessie Love steals the show as the kid sister in this comedy about money and snobbishness.
Leila Hyams plays a working secretary who falls for her rich boss (Conrad Nagel) but agrees to marry him only if he moves in with her middle-class family. After the honeymoon poor Nagel moves in with the family in their hot and overcrowded New York apartment. The family is pretty stereotypical, especially the workhorse mom (Edythe Chapman) and the raving cousin (Robert Ober).
But Bessie Love saves the day in a loose and funny performance as the kid sister who WANTS the money while the rest of the family pretends not to be interested in Nagel's millions. Nagel also has fun as the displaced millionaire forced to live in a small apartment and listen to the neighbor's jazz records at all hours. Hyams is pretty and earnest in a one-note role.
Love has a great scene of hysteria when she learns that Nagel is giving away all his money to become "middle class." It's similar to her great scenes in THE Broadway MELODY and CHASING RAINBOWS.
Co-stars included Kenneth Gibson as Frank, Paul Kruger as the boy friend, and James Neill as the father.
Sound is quite good for a 1929 talkie, but it's funny when the actors muff their lines. The editing is lousy.
Leila Hyams plays a working secretary who falls for her rich boss (Conrad Nagel) but agrees to marry him only if he moves in with her middle-class family. After the honeymoon poor Nagel moves in with the family in their hot and overcrowded New York apartment. The family is pretty stereotypical, especially the workhorse mom (Edythe Chapman) and the raving cousin (Robert Ober).
But Bessie Love saves the day in a loose and funny performance as the kid sister who WANTS the money while the rest of the family pretends not to be interested in Nagel's millions. Nagel also has fun as the displaced millionaire forced to live in a small apartment and listen to the neighbor's jazz records at all hours. Hyams is pretty and earnest in a one-note role.
Love has a great scene of hysteria when she learns that Nagel is giving away all his money to become "middle class." It's similar to her great scenes in THE Broadway MELODY and CHASING RAINBOWS.
Co-stars included Kenneth Gibson as Frank, Paul Kruger as the boy friend, and James Neill as the father.
Sound is quite good for a 1929 talkie, but it's funny when the actors muff their lines. The editing is lousy.