Yours For The Asking has George Raft running a gambling club on the QT in Miami and one night society woman Dolores Costello has run out of her old money and can't settle up. But Raft takes a shine to her and strikes up an arrangement where she fronts for a swanky upscale type establishment.
The three guys who are Raft's staff are a trio of Damon Runyon type characters James Gleason, Lynne Overman, and Edgar Kennedy who don't see themselves as being around for long in an upscale place. They hire a pair of grifters played by Ida Lupino and Reginald Owen to break up Costello and Raft. But Lupino and Owens are after bigger game.
The problem I see in Yours For The Asking is that Raft is too streetwise to ever cast well as a chump. And Costello beautiful as she is lacks a spark in her performance.
The film is really carried by Gleason, Overman and Kennedy. Paramount should have done a feature with these three they worked very well together.
Yours For The Asking right out of the screwball comedy era of the 30s should have been a bit screwier.
The three guys who are Raft's staff are a trio of Damon Runyon type characters James Gleason, Lynne Overman, and Edgar Kennedy who don't see themselves as being around for long in an upscale place. They hire a pair of grifters played by Ida Lupino and Reginald Owen to break up Costello and Raft. But Lupino and Owens are after bigger game.
The problem I see in Yours For The Asking is that Raft is too streetwise to ever cast well as a chump. And Costello beautiful as she is lacks a spark in her performance.
The film is really carried by Gleason, Overman and Kennedy. Paramount should have done a feature with these three they worked very well together.
Yours For The Asking right out of the screwball comedy era of the 30s should have been a bit screwier.