Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.
Acting
Constance Cummings owns the gym and the screen.
Costume
Honey's power suits vs. Cooky's eternal grease stains.
Writing
Pre-Code zingers that somehow got past 1932 censors.
Director
Edward Buzzell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pre-Code Hollywood let women run businesses and talk dirty — this was practically radical before the Hays Code crushed everything fun in 1934.
Thelma Todd, the platinum-blonde scene-stealer here, died mysteriously three years later at 29; conspiracy theories still swirl.
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