Sounding like a glamorous MGM drawing room comedy, "Times Square Lady" is so totally the opposite as it deals with the death of a criminal and the revelation that the heir to his nightclub is a daughter he barely knew brought up by her late mother's relatives in Iowa. When this glamorous young lady arrives, society takes notice, and the gangsters who wanted to get control of his club go after her like a dog attacking a steak. She attracts the attention of the very handsome Robert Taylor who isn't as involved in organized crime as the rival gangsters but is already engaged to the shady Helen Twelvetrees. Pretty much nothing happens in the film's 67 minutes that couldn't have been summed up in one of those "Crime Does Not Pay" shorts, and too much time is given to country bumpkin Pinky Tomlin to sing "The Object Of My Affection" over and over. Frankly, I'd rather hear Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer sing it in that memorable "Our Gang" short.
Nat Pendleton adds buffoonish comedy as Taylor's driver, and really surpasses the line of stupidity when he sticks his smiling head out of a window, looking back at shooting gangsters chasing them. Isabel Jewell adds a bit of amusing comedy as the manicurist whom Bruce hires as her secretary/companion, but for the most part, this feels like an amalgamation of bits and pieces of every crime drama already made and totally overloaded with stereotypes. Taylor and Bruce make an attractive couple, but its just a shame that they didn't have a screenplay that was a bit fresher and didn't feel like it was thrown together with pages torn apart from older scripts.
Nat Pendleton adds buffoonish comedy as Taylor's driver, and really surpasses the line of stupidity when he sticks his smiling head out of a window, looking back at shooting gangsters chasing them. Isabel Jewell adds a bit of amusing comedy as the manicurist whom Bruce hires as her secretary/companion, but for the most part, this feels like an amalgamation of bits and pieces of every crime drama already made and totally overloaded with stereotypes. Taylor and Bruce make an attractive couple, but its just a shame that they didn't have a screenplay that was a bit fresher and didn't feel like it was thrown together with pages torn apart from older scripts.