I'd expect better from the pen of Robert Riskin.
The idea is laudable but the execution is is lamentable. It's utterly predictable and made worse by the predictably awful acting from Jean Harlow. With so much talent around in that era I am perpetually perplexed as to how Jean Harlow ended up being such a mega star. Somehow she did and was loaned out to Columbia to make this dull, cheaply made film even worse.
The theme, as I said is quite worthy. It's essentially outlining how a lot of young women in The Depression survive - as the song goes: ever since the world began, a woman's got to have a man. Hard to imagine these days and almost uncomfortable to accept this but that was how it was certainly for poorer women, they NEEDED to get a man. A husband or just as acceptable or maybe that should be just as accepted, a rich married man. Within this context, this film makes much more sense but it still doesn't make it entertaining....and it's still got Jean Harlow trying to act (o.k. Mustn't be unkind, she did do a few good films later in her career)
The idea is laudable but the execution is is lamentable. It's utterly predictable and made worse by the predictably awful acting from Jean Harlow. With so much talent around in that era I am perpetually perplexed as to how Jean Harlow ended up being such a mega star. Somehow she did and was loaned out to Columbia to make this dull, cheaply made film even worse.
The theme, as I said is quite worthy. It's essentially outlining how a lot of young women in The Depression survive - as the song goes: ever since the world began, a woman's got to have a man. Hard to imagine these days and almost uncomfortable to accept this but that was how it was certainly for poorer women, they NEEDED to get a man. A husband or just as acceptable or maybe that should be just as accepted, a rich married man. Within this context, this film makes much more sense but it still doesn't make it entertaining....and it's still got Jean Harlow trying to act (o.k. Mustn't be unkind, she did do a few good films later in her career)