MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Robert J. Maxwell The studios must have been grinding these quickies out like Papa John's pizza pies during the 20s, 30s, and 40s, and why not? What else was there? Radio, but no television, and the movies themselves didn't cost a fortune and didn't run red with blood.This confusing and essentially uninteresting story has Lowell Sherman, who also directed, as a wealthy playboy businessman whose apartment overflows with women, many of them showing up at the wrong time, and the occasional murderously jealous husband.The most interesting shot is the opening scene, the aftermath of the previous evening's debauch. Rollins, the bald and stuffy butler, begins to clean up the mess -- cocktail glasses, overturned bottles, ash trays -- and when he get to one ash tray he picks up a butt, sniffs it, and shrugs. (It's weed; this was pre-code and during prohibition too, but you could still get away with stuff like that.) There is a quick shot of a lady's open compact with powder spilled on the chair seat and Rollins' eyes open in shock. Yes, that too.Sherman finally appears in what I suppose passed for comfortable morning attire, a buttoned-up collar and tie, and a silk dressing gown. Maybe bachelors feel comfortable and casual in a tie because they're different from the rest of us. Sherman's playboy has a lot of quick patter with the butler over such subjects as scrambled eggs for breakfast. Cary Grant might have pulled off something like this a few years later but Sherman has a thin mustache and nervous hands and he's chunky. It's hard to imagine what draws women to him.Irene Dunne and her sister are the only two women of principle. Dunne gives an adequate if unexciting performance as the humble secretary who ends the movie in a clinch with the pawky Sherman. Several nice shots of blonds running around in their skivvies, though, for what it's worth. Pre-code can be fun.

lnoft97 I just love the LOOK of the movies of the 30's, that is, the movies celebrating the lifestyles of the giddy rich. The clothes, the decor, the cars, the swank living quarters. The plot has already been discussed here, I came to comment about Mae Murray (age 42?? she looks adorable!). I am reminded of the back story of the comic strip that has been around forever - "Blondie" - who was a flapper who married Dagwood way back in the 20's, thereby prompting his wealthy family to cut him off and condemn him to working for a living unto this day. Mae Murray looks exactly like "Blondie" might have looked, in her wild youth, before she became domesticated ! A creaky movie, but worth a look. The 'playboy' is rather silly, it's the women and the look of the film I enjoy.

David (Handlinghandel) Another of the movies I would not think of watching but for Irene Dunne, playing anything but swank comedy here. It consists of basically two types of characters. One is ladies in lingerie or revealing gowns. (Dunne wears neither but at one point we see her in her boss's bathrobe.) The other is gentlemen who appear to prefer other gentlemen.One of these is its director and star, Lowell Sherman. He had a solid hand as a director and is likable as a performer. But he's a little hard to buy as a ladies' man. And in one scene, he goes to a friend's apartment, demanding to see who's in the bedroom. Instead of the woman he's looking for, two men are there. They're fully clothed and maybe the audience at the time thought they were sleeping off hangovers. Maybe that's what the script meant, for all I know. But it's not the way they come across in the context of the movie.The print I saw was fuzzy but it's chic and entertaining -- dated but also risqué.

stephen6387 Mae Murray proves, unlike so many silent superstars, that she can speak on screen in her first of two sound pictures. A pleasant light comedy co-starring Lowell Sherman as a sophisticated roue and a very young Irene Dunne stealing the film from the titular star.