Jean Harlow and Patsy Kelly flee Missouri and strike out for Broadway. Miss Kelly goes for anything in pants. Miss Harlow thinks it's easy to fall in love with a millionaire, and to remain a good girl -- the Production Code is in force, after all. To her surprise, she has a hard time resisting Franchot Tone. When he asks her to marry him, his father, high-placed banker Lionel Barrymore decides to frame her.
You can see the horse-trading that went on between MGM and the Hays Office to get Miss Harlow to appear in her knickers for about one half second. The MGM gloss is apparent throughout the movie, with a cast of supporting actors that includes Lewis Stone, Alan Mowbray, Hale Hamilton, and Clara Blandick, and the script by Anita Loos and John Emerson.... well, I'd like to see the first draft of it.
MGM seems to have thought that teaming Tone and Miss Harlow was a good one, with Tone's fussy, upper-class demeanor contrasting with Harlow's raucousness. There's something in that, but Tone always gives me the impression that he doesn't believe any of it, but is going along with the gag because he doesn't want to be thought of as a bad sport. It's mostly up to Miss Harlow to carry this along, and she does so.
You can see the horse-trading that went on between MGM and the Hays Office to get Miss Harlow to appear in her knickers for about one half second. The MGM gloss is apparent throughout the movie, with a cast of supporting actors that includes Lewis Stone, Alan Mowbray, Hale Hamilton, and Clara Blandick, and the script by Anita Loos and John Emerson.... well, I'd like to see the first draft of it.
MGM seems to have thought that teaming Tone and Miss Harlow was a good one, with Tone's fussy, upper-class demeanor contrasting with Harlow's raucousness. There's something in that, but Tone always gives me the impression that he doesn't believe any of it, but is going along with the gag because he doesn't want to be thought of as a bad sport. It's mostly up to Miss Harlow to carry this along, and she does so.