Girl Without a Room

If you look at the poster currently on IMDB, you would probably assume that this pre-code film is very tawdry. After all, there is a lady wearing nothing but a towel! But while the morals and situations in this film would have required changes had it come out after the tougher production code was enacted in mid-1934, the changes would have been minor. After all, a guy shares an apartment with a lady...and they aren't married. But they are, despite this very chaste.

Tom Duncan (Charles Farrell) has come to Paris to become a great artist. He soon falls in with a bunch of weirdo bohemians in an apartment building. Can Tom discover and unleash his great talent within and can he manage to win the girl by the end of the film?

This is an odd film. After all, a lot of the dialog is in rhyming prose! And, the characters are weird and keep popping into nearly every scene...much like you'd see in the movie "You Can't Take it With You". It's pleasant and fun...though a tad shrill...as if it's working just too hard to try to make you laugh.