Even in a code dimmed comedy like this Jean Harlow's talents shine through. The soliloquy she delivers to Franchot Tone's Palm Beach rich boy about the miseries of growing up on the wrong side of the tracks is the high point of a too flat film. Harlow even manages to steal scenes from one of the master scene stealers, Lionel Barrymore. Ultimately, it's not enough to save a movie whose chief scenarist, Anita Loos, creator of Lorelei Lee, seems to be writing dialogue with a Hays Office sword over her head. C plus.
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