Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
Acting
Joan Blondell's exasperated eye rolls deserve their own Oscar.
Direction
Curtiz already showing the visual wit of his Casablanca era.
Costume
Blondell's secretary looks—smart, practical, secretly yearning.
Director
Michael Curtiz
Warren William
Kenneth L. 'Ken' Bixby
Joan Blondell
Anne Rogers
Genevieve Tobin
Julie Clochessy Wilson
Hugh Herbert
Harvey Wilson
Wallace Ford
Arthur Westlake
Helen Chandler
Elizabeth Clochessy
Hobart Cavanaugh
Mr. Clayton
Ruth Donnelly
Richview Hotel Maid
Lester Dorr
Albany Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Train Porter (uncredited)
Renee Whitney
Woman Buying Copy of 'Miriam' (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Warren William played so many caddish pre-code leads that fans called him 'the king of pre-code.' This was his wheelhouse.
The unfaithful wife plot barely raised eyebrows in 1933—Hollywood's Production Code enforcement began months later, making this time capsule erotically frank by accident of timing.
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