The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)

Alternate Title: Three Broadway Girls.

Three friends who have no profession and no husband go through several adventures after one of them, an unscrupled manhunter, comes back from Europe without a dime.

Entertaining comedy whose plot doesn't live up to the cynicism which its initial caption implies; the different personalities of the main three female characters allow us to see the 'gold digger' through different angles. Only one of the characters is really embodying the gold digger in its stereotypical 'pure' state (that's 'Jean'); a second character, 'Schatzi', fits the pattern only partially since she does not resort to ethically questionable devices; and the third one, 'Polaire', is the farthest removed from the typical gold digger. Technically, though, they are all gold diggers, since all three are women who are financially dependent on men. The film poses the dilemma.
This is number nine in Dale Thomajan's top ten films for 1932.

Rating: 59