A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York City street girl and a good-hearted cab driver, but other matters keep getting in their way, including financial problems and a murder.
Acting
Lombard's pre-screwball vulnerability hits different here.
Direction
Buzzell squeezes moral complexity into 68 tight minutes.
Director
Edward Buzzell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released mere months before strict Hays Code enforcement, this is pre-Code Hollywood at its most socially honest—prostitution by name, cohabitation, women owning their economic choices.
Mayo Methot (Lil) would later marry Humphrey Bogart in 1938; their violent marriage reportedly inspired 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'
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