This is a very enjoyable and slight comedy. While I hardly agree with some reviews who see it as the ultimate "screwball comedy" (it doesn't even come close), it it certainly a fun little move worth your time.
Danielle Darrieux stars in one of her only American films as a poor girl desperately looking for a job. In a cute scene, she sneaks into a modeling agency and grabs a slip of paper indicating where a modeling job is--but she accidentally grabs the wrong one. The paper she got is NOT the address of a photographer, but nice guy Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. The job she wanted involved undressing and Fairbanks was VERY surprised when she entered his office and started taking off her clothes! After a moment, he called in his employees to watch the show and Darrieux finally realizes this is NOT the photographer's studio! Louis Hayward is the nice rich guy she sets her sights on, but the plan begins to come apart when she meets Hayward's best friend,...Fairbanks! He immediately recognizes that she is the poor lady looking for a modeling job and NOT the rich Parisian lady Hayward thinks she is. But, Hayward is so smitten that he won't believe Fairbanks. So, Fairbanks kidnaps Darrieux to prevent him from marrying her.
The scenes where Fairbanks and Darrieux spend time together in a secluded cabin are pretty cute. Their chemistry together improves and it's obvious to everyone in the audience that they are destined to wed. It takes about another 20 minutes for this to occur, but the film concludes with a predictable, yet satisfying conclusion.
Darrieux is pretty enjoyable in the film--being extremely cute though hardly the vamp! About the only negative is that her accent was so heavy, it was occasionally difficult to understand all her lines. Fairbanks was, as usual, great and it is hard to understand why his Hollywood career didn't take off more than it did.
The film gets points for originality, a breezy script and decent acting. The film, though, is not a laugh out loud comedy, but a mild farce worth seeing.
A short time later, the poor and desperate Darrieux is taken in by Helen Broderick--who tells her to forget about the job and try to find a nice rich guy to marry instead. With the help of Mischa Auer, the devise a scheme to have Darrieux pose as a rich woman (thanks to Auer's money he's saved up to open a restaurant) and bag a rich fella.
Danielle Darrieux stars in one of her only American films as a poor girl desperately looking for a job. In a cute scene, she sneaks into a modeling agency and grabs a slip of paper indicating where a modeling job is--but she accidentally grabs the wrong one. The paper she got is NOT the address of a photographer, but nice guy Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. The job she wanted involved undressing and Fairbanks was VERY surprised when she entered his office and started taking off her clothes! After a moment, he called in his employees to watch the show and Darrieux finally realizes this is NOT the photographer's studio! Louis Hayward is the nice rich guy she sets her sights on, but the plan begins to come apart when she meets Hayward's best friend,...Fairbanks! He immediately recognizes that she is the poor lady looking for a modeling job and NOT the rich Parisian lady Hayward thinks she is. But, Hayward is so smitten that he won't believe Fairbanks. So, Fairbanks kidnaps Darrieux to prevent him from marrying her.
The scenes where Fairbanks and Darrieux spend time together in a secluded cabin are pretty cute. Their chemistry together improves and it's obvious to everyone in the audience that they are destined to wed. It takes about another 20 minutes for this to occur, but the film concludes with a predictable, yet satisfying conclusion.
Darrieux is pretty enjoyable in the film--being extremely cute though hardly the vamp! About the only negative is that her accent was so heavy, it was occasionally difficult to understand all her lines. Fairbanks was, as usual, great and it is hard to understand why his Hollywood career didn't take off more than it did.
The film gets points for originality, a breezy script and decent acting. The film, though, is not a laugh out loud comedy, but a mild farce worth seeing.
A short time later, the poor and desperate Darrieux is taken in by Helen Broderick--who tells her to forget about the job and try to find a nice rich guy to marry instead. With the help of Mischa Auer, the devise a scheme to have Darrieux pose as a rich woman (thanks to Auer's money he's saved up to open a restaurant) and bag a rich fella.