Squint your eyes very hard while you’re watching this because you don’t want to miss the Paulie Walnuts wings on Herbert Marshall.

Sylvia 💞

I often enjoy these 30s and 40s B pictures. They were short for a few reasons. One being that women could go see them during the week days as a respite from housewifedom. This movie is a good example of that. Herbert Marshall is super charming and Ms Sidney is, of course, cute/sexy/adorable at the same time, a very difficult trifecta that only few have accomplished. The film is only ok, fairly disjointed, and would’ve benefited from being more fleshed out, making it a feature. But still worth your 75 minute watch.

the only movie you’ll ever see sylvia do any type of sport or be in a bathing suit out of her entire filmography! also she’s so cute and tiny I love her in comedy

“You write women awfully well. It’s funny that you should be so stupid about them in real life.”

Loved the Herbert Marshall, Sylvia Sidney pairing. I only wish the third act would’ve been better. I’d be more okay with it if I was sold on Sidney’s character even liking Dickie at some point in the film, let alone loving him. Conversely, I thought her fondness for Herbert’s character was much more convincing. And I loved the way he handled it, never really taking it as serious as she wanted him to, mostly due to what he knew and felt about age and experience, which was admirable and certainly not common for a film of this age.

Side note: the butler played by Ernest Cossart was fantastic, sneaking in his mushy smitten phone calls with his fiancée working across the way.

Frustrating film where Sylvia Sidney is torn between the mature Herbert Marshall, who can only express himself through writing plays, and the immature fool Phillip Reed. At least you can enjoy Marshall's soothing voice say a bunch of romantic mumbo-jumbo.