Make Way for a Lady

Before Deanna Durbin came along, here was Anne Shirley doing a Deanna Durbin type Ms. Fix-it part for RKO. Not that she isn't good, but the film itself is kind of silly.

Shirley's dad Herbert Marshall is a widower and a publisher of some renown and he's got a glamorous novelist client in Gertrude Michael. Somehow as Shirley has read Gert's latest epic she convinces herself that the plot is really the great love story between Marshall and Michael. In the process she alienates Margot Grahame who'd like very much to be the second Mrs. Marshall.

The whole business is dopey and Shirley ought to get a tanning from her old man for making such a mess. Everybody here has done better. Gertrude Michael comes off the best.