To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.
Acting
Lombard and Robson's unlikely duo crackles.
Costume
Alabam's wardrobe screams 'trying too hard' perfectly.
Writing
Snappy dialogue dances around censorship brilliantly.
Director
David Burton
Carole Lombard
Alabam Lee
May Robson
Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson
Roger Pryor
Johnny Mills
Walter Connolly
Judge Daly
Arthur Hohl
Kendall
Raymond Walburn
Front O'Malley
James Burke
Brannigan
Henry Kolker
Opper
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Mose (uncredited)
Akim Tamiroff
Poupolis (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe
Dance Extra (uncredited)
Charles King
Drunk (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of May Robson's final roles—she was 84 and had started in silent films.
Pre-Code Hollywood let Lombard play openly sexual working women; this role wouldn't exist two years later. The 'fan dancer' profession was real and scandalous—basically burlesque with ostrich feathers.
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