When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Acting
Elsa Maxwell playing herself is unhinged fourth-wall-breaking gold.
Writing
The premise is so bonkers it circles back to genius.
Director
Gregory Ratoff
George Murphy
Alan Blake
Brenda Joyce
Penny Cooper
Charles Ruggles
Milburn
Ralph Bellamy
Bruce Fairchild
Mischa Auer
Grisha
Elsa Maxwell
Herself
Lloyd Corrigan
Hugh Stackett
Franklin Pangborn
Bartender
Maxie Rosenbloom
Eric
Berton Churchill
Judge
Ivan Lebedeff
Feodor
Elisha Cook Jr.
Communist
Hobart Cavanaugh
Mr. Schlitz
Mary Gordon
Landlady
Chester Clute
Car Payment Man
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Brenda Joyce's final film before retiring at 23 to marry an oil tycoon—making her real life almost as bonkers as the plot.
Elsa Maxwell was a real gossip columnist and party host who basically invented the celebrity socialite; her casting was 1940s stunt casting at its finest.
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