In this very old pre-Code movie, Loretta Young is in love with Conway Tearle. He's young, self-centered, and foolish. Instead of having dinner at home with his family and devoted girlfriend, he gets drunk at a nightclub and falls for a singing floozy, Myrna Loy. Meanwhile, David Manners is secretly in love with Loretta. Will he take advantage of Conway's stupidity, or try to get the two kids back together?
Really, the only reasons to rent this forgotten pre-Code movie are if you want to watch every Loretta Young movie ever made, or if you can't believe Myrna Loy, who played staid mother types in the 1940s and 1950s, ever had a wild phase. She sings, dances, and prances around in very skimpy, skin-tight clothes. She's a gold digger who calls potential beaux "Daddy", but it's not the performance of a lifetime. You can catch her in other scandalous roles during the pre-Thin Man years. And for Loretta fans, she's a shockingly terrible actress in this movie. I'm not a fan of hers anyway, but in this early role, she's really stinky. It's as if she were some girl the director approached on the street and asked to read lines for the other person's closeup.
Really, the only reasons to rent this forgotten pre-Code movie are if you want to watch every Loretta Young movie ever made, or if you can't believe Myrna Loy, who played staid mother types in the 1940s and 1950s, ever had a wild phase. She sings, dances, and prances around in very skimpy, skin-tight clothes. She's a gold digger who calls potential beaux "Daddy", but it's not the performance of a lifetime. You can catch her in other scandalous roles during the pre-Thin Man years. And for Loretta fans, she's a shockingly terrible actress in this movie. I'm not a fan of hers anyway, but in this early role, she's really stinky. It's as if she were some girl the director approached on the street and asked to read lines for the other person's closeup.