Acting
Wheeler & Woolsey's rapid-fire wordplay predates the Marx Brothers' peak.
Production
Glimmering glimpse of 1930 Hollywood pre-Code freedom.
Director
Paul Sloane
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wheeler and Woolsey were RKO's biggest comedy draw until their 1937 split; this was their only color film sequence.
The 'gypsy' portrayal is peak 1930s Hollywood exoticism—part romantic myth, part ethnic stereotype that wouldn't fly today.
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