A young working-class woman is best friends with a reporter who is in love with her. She falls in love with a man she meets by accident, unaware that he is a wealthy member of English nobility. A series of misunderstandings interrupt their love affair, while at the same time conferring her celebrity status.
This is what is usually described as "fluff", or, even more deprecatingly, "pap". It is not that the screenwriter, director, and actors are not all geniuses. They are, but did these people have any power over a movie in 1930s Hollywood? The writer is given a very silly story to develop (cashing in on the success of It Happened One Night, reportedly), the director films it to perfection, and the actors play it superbly. But it all started as pap, and the finished product cannot be anything but pap.
Rating: 32
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