Despite its overworked plot with characters hiding under beds, falling down stairs and getting soaked with a hose, this is an amusing and ingratiating little comedy with the lovely Marie Prevost in her farcical element as the sexy but scatty, change-of-mind heroine. Harrison Ford registers okay as the stooge, even if he allows elderly William Orlamond to steal most his scenes. Aside from the nightclub ep with the frenetic orchestra and the prancing cuties, Hopper's direction is effective but steadfastly routine. The film was remade by producer Edward Small in 1944 with Gail Patrick (as the Mabel of the title, although her role is not that of the Mabel in the play), Dennis O'Keefe and Marjorie Reynolds.
Review of Up in Mabel's Room
