Acting
Jack Benny's smug adman persona is vintage radio-to-screen gold.
Costume
Ida Lupino's fake-debutante wardrobe screams Depression-era aspirational fantasy.
Director
Raoul Walsh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Raoul Walsh directed this between hardboiled crime pictures like High Sierra—comedy was his secret playground.
The debutante-as-marketing-gimmick premise satirizes 1930s America's obsession with manufactured aristocracy during the Depression.
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