The 1920s and the decades thereafter must have seen hundreds of films about poor girls who fall in love with rich men and eventually marry them, without, of course, being in any way gold diggers! The genre seems to have died - maybe at the hand of comedies like 'Some Like it Hot' (1959) - by the 1960s. 'Orchids and Ermine' is a thoroughly pleasing example. Its plot is simple but offers some enjoyable twists, and the acting is really very good. Colleen Moore was perfect in the kind of role she plays here. The film is less sophisticated than that of for example 'Why Be Good' (another film of the poor girl-rich man genre), that Moore filmed two years later, which is why I am rating it seven rather than eight stars, but this is still a very nice picture. Watch it if you get the chance.
Review of Orchids and Ermine
