Hotel for Women

Linda Darnell takes the train from Syracuse to New York and checks into a women's hotel. She has decided to accept James Ellison's marriage proposal. Ellison has gone big city, working as an architect for John Halliday and dating his daughter, Kay Aldridge. Disconsolate, Miss Darnell decides to leave the next morning. However, by that time she is a top model for a brand of cigarettes, and the men are after her. She rejects them all with a smile on her face while Ellison goes crazier and crazier.

It's a pleasant, Code-compliant, sophisticated Girls-in-the-Big-City romp. Miss Darnell, in her first feature, is too blandly pleasant to carry it, but she's backed by a nice complement of support: Ann Southern (top billed; supposedly her part was trimmed when she signed a contract with MGM instead of 20 Century-Fox), Jean Rogers, Lynn Bari, Joyce Compton (always a favorite of mine) and even Elsa Maxwell, who plays Elsa Maxwell. It's based on a story by her. The men include Alan Dinehart and Sidney Blackmer. Although clearly no expense was spared for this production, it looks like a handsome programmer.