Good Soaper, starring theater legend, Tallulah Bankhead, in the last of six movies she made (this one, on loan to MGM) before her Paramount contract, which had started in 1931, expired in 1932. It's a rare chance of watching a young Tallulah (she was 29 years old here).
She works well with co-star Montgomery, who's right as a good-natured advertisement executive, who loses his job, just as the same time, his millionaire fiancée ("dahling" Tallulah) runs completely out of money.
*MAYBE SPOILERS AHEAD* Then Talloo, turns to the oldest profession, first as a kept woman, then as a streetwalker, and the soaper begins...
The film's running time seemed just right for me, as well as the definite Pre-Code nature of the film (the picture's ending wouldn't have been possible from 1935 onwards).
Wonderful, lavish, sophisticated sets, décors and costumes, especially in the first half of the movie. Tallulah really gets MGM's first-class treatment.
She works well with co-star Montgomery, who's right as a good-natured advertisement executive, who loses his job, just as the same time, his millionaire fiancée ("dahling" Tallulah) runs completely out of money.
*MAYBE SPOILERS AHEAD* Then Talloo, turns to the oldest profession, first as a kept woman, then as a streetwalker, and the soaper begins...
The film's running time seemed just right for me, as well as the definite Pre-Code nature of the film (the picture's ending wouldn't have been possible from 1935 onwards).
Wonderful, lavish, sophisticated sets, décors and costumes, especially in the first half of the movie. Tallulah really gets MGM's first-class treatment.