While leading actors Danielle Darrieux, Louis Hayward and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. are all excellent, I can't decide who I preferred between the two best actors in the film, Helen Broderick and Mischa Auer. They are basically playing the same character they've always played in these type of films, but they are so funny and so likeable that it's hard to dismiss similarities in roles they played before and after.
When Auer makes a funny face or reacts to the scheme that he's involved in with Broderick I choose him, but then Broderick makes a statement on the phoniness of humanity and how all of humans are liars, and her examples of how threatens to take her up to that spot.
The film deals with a poor French girl (Darrieux) who is desperately trying to get a job as a model, after nearly being house she's living at begins to scheme with Broderick and Auer to pretend to be a wealthy French socialite. living in luxury at a top hotel, she meets wealthy Hayward protect her to the symphony. While there, she sees him Greek his friend Fairbanks whom she had earlier had an unsuccessful modeling audition with.
Before long, the two men are fighting for her affections, and well it's pretty obvious who she will choose, you can tell it's going to be a tough decision because both men are good pics. Fortunately, she does fall in love with both at one point so it's obvious that she is not your common screwball comedy gold digger.
Filmed on the vacant sets obviously from a Deanna durbin musical, this is universal best screwball comedy after "My Man Godfrey". The charming Darrieux isn't flighty like Carole Lombard or wisecracking like Jean Harlow or calculating like Jean Arthur, but just a lovely young lady looking for a chance in life and ending up in a screwy situation.
Fairbanks and Hayward are both handsome, and in a smaller part, Henry Davenport is lovable as the caretaker of Fairbanks' country home. But Broderick and Auer are so commanding and steel the film with little effort. Excellent art direction, beautiful gowns and a lovely musical score aide the film greatly. This is one that I can see myself returning to fairly regularly as it has every element that makes great screwball comedies stand the test of time.
When Auer makes a funny face or reacts to the scheme that he's involved in with Broderick I choose him, but then Broderick makes a statement on the phoniness of humanity and how all of humans are liars, and her examples of how threatens to take her up to that spot.
The film deals with a poor French girl (Darrieux) who is desperately trying to get a job as a model, after nearly being house she's living at begins to scheme with Broderick and Auer to pretend to be a wealthy French socialite. living in luxury at a top hotel, she meets wealthy Hayward protect her to the symphony. While there, she sees him Greek his friend Fairbanks whom she had earlier had an unsuccessful modeling audition with.
Before long, the two men are fighting for her affections, and well it's pretty obvious who she will choose, you can tell it's going to be a tough decision because both men are good pics. Fortunately, she does fall in love with both at one point so it's obvious that she is not your common screwball comedy gold digger.
Filmed on the vacant sets obviously from a Deanna durbin musical, this is universal best screwball comedy after "My Man Godfrey". The charming Darrieux isn't flighty like Carole Lombard or wisecracking like Jean Harlow or calculating like Jean Arthur, but just a lovely young lady looking for a chance in life and ending up in a screwy situation.
Fairbanks and Hayward are both handsome, and in a smaller part, Henry Davenport is lovable as the caretaker of Fairbanks' country home. But Broderick and Auer are so commanding and steel the film with little effort. Excellent art direction, beautiful gowns and a lovely musical score aide the film greatly. This is one that I can see myself returning to fairly regularly as it has every element that makes great screwball comedies stand the test of time.