Zasu and Thelma are working their way through college by selling magazine subscriptions. Finding little success going door-to-door, the pair decide to use their charms to sell to men at their places of work.
Acting
Zasu Pitts' fluttery panic vs. Thelma Todd's cool confidence.
Practical Effects
Depression-era gags built on ladders, doors, and dignity.
Director
George Marshall
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thelma Todd died mysteriously in 1935; this captures her at peak comedic power.
Pre-Code Hollywood let women scheme and flirt without punishment—this vanished after 1934.
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