After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
Acting
Stanwyck's Texas tornado meets Marshall's befuddled playboy
Writing
Pre-Code snap in every exchange
Direction
Santell keeps 67 minutes breathless
Director
Alfred Santell
Barbara Stanwyck
Valentine Ransome
Herbert Marshall
Jonathan Blair
Glenda Farrell
Carol Wallace
Eric Blore
Butch
Donald Meek
Justice of the Peace
Etienne Girardot
Mr. Meggs
Frank M. Thomas
Sam Ransome
Pierre Watkin
Gordon Faraday
Bobby Barber
Window Washer (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
Clarence - Blair's Butler (uncredited)
Harold Goodwin
Joe - Blair's Chauffeur (uncredited)
George Irving
Receivership Hearing Judge (uncredited)
Maxine Jennings
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Edward LeSaint
Receivership Hearing Member (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Barbara Stanwyck reportedly disliked this film, calling it 'a piece of fluff'—she was wrong, but she was also doing Golden Boy the same year.
Released October 1937, this captures the final gasp of screwball before WWII sobered Hollywood; the 'reform the playboy' plot was already a cliché even then.
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