8/10
Screwball romantic comedy, with the ultimate switcharoo ending
2 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
A moderately fun screwball romantic comedy, with Joan Blondell playing waitress Jenny Swanson, whose ambition is to snare a college boy from a wealthy family and either marry him or get a marriage proposal that his family turns down, then blackmail his father into getting rid of her, using the money to go to Paris. Joan is certainly cute enough to attract men. She's attracted to a middle-aged visiting professor, Ronnie Brooks, from England; however, doesn't let on. He will soon be leaving for NYC to marry the daughter of the founder of the college where he just was.

After a scandal involving a wealthy college student, Brooke suggests she go back to her small town in MN. She almost does, but at the last moment, decides on NYC instead. She meets Brooke and his future brother-in-law, Tom, on the train. Jenny gets cozy with Tom, and when they arrive, he takes her to several night clubs, winding up drunk, so that she has to help him home. There,she puts him to bed, and meets his mother and grandfather in the hall. His mother ,Caroline, tells the grandfather, Olaf, that she is a bride's maid for Brooke's wedding. Jenny has wormed her way into a wealthy family, at least for a short while. However, she can't blackmail Olaf, the patriarch of the family, because he soon takes a liking to her. Tom makes a marriage proposal. She's OK, and that is the plan until the last moment. Toward the end, we have 4 single young men plus Brooke and 3 single women frequenting the Brand house. There are various marriage proposals and plans, and various others going out for an evening. It all seems very fluid, and the seemingly set pairs disintegrate at the last moment. Guess who Jenny actually ends up with, as she was actually hoping. London isn't very far form Paris, and good girls, too, get to go to Paris.

Walter Connolly, as grandfather Olaf, was a scream, literally, all the time shouting and complaining. He was the live wire this comedy needed, especially when combined with Joan. Unfortunately, he died the following year...Incidentally, Isabel Jeans, as Tom's mother, was actually 2 years younger than Alan Curtis, who plays Tom!
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