Gee, Adrienne Ames was beautiful and how, she could polish up any movie she was in and this one needed some elbow grease!! A role she was born to play, Mme Helene, the proprietor of a Park Avenue rejuvenation salon - very easy for her to persuade older, often desperate women to sign up for her basic beauty program. With wise cracking Pert Kelton as her receptionist ("I'd like to marry a man like you as long as he wasn't too much like you"!!) and lovely Esther Ralston as a trouble making client, the men are just an after thought!! I thought this was going
to be an expose of the beauty business but the salacious title was just a ruse for some romantic shenanigans!!
Helen is all set to marry solid, dependable Dr. Stallings (George Meeker could almost play the role in his sleep) - she doesn't love him but, according to him, that will come. Enter playboy Pat Felton (Craig Reynolds) who gives her life the excitement it is lacking. It is a case of love at first sight for him and the rest of the movie is spent trying to patch up obstacles thrown in his path by Ralston who plays a jealous ex-girlfriend. Helene has her share of admirers as well - George Horton (Edward Keene) whose wife is a client of Helene's - he feels she is a back number (that old 30s phrase!) and needs to spruce herself up!! This must have been Dorothy Vaughan's movie moment as it is the film's highlight. She is satisfied with Helen's explanation about accidentally running into her husband (the beauty shop gossips try to make something lewd out of it) but the snide remarks and cruel laughter of the cats prompt her to take drastic action which also helps Helen make up her mind about her own future.
Nothing earth shattering or memorable.
to be an expose of the beauty business but the salacious title was just a ruse for some romantic shenanigans!!
Helen is all set to marry solid, dependable Dr. Stallings (George Meeker could almost play the role in his sleep) - she doesn't love him but, according to him, that will come. Enter playboy Pat Felton (Craig Reynolds) who gives her life the excitement it is lacking. It is a case of love at first sight for him and the rest of the movie is spent trying to patch up obstacles thrown in his path by Ralston who plays a jealous ex-girlfriend. Helene has her share of admirers as well - George Horton (Edward Keene) whose wife is a client of Helene's - he feels she is a back number (that old 30s phrase!) and needs to spruce herself up!! This must have been Dorothy Vaughan's movie moment as it is the film's highlight. She is satisfied with Helen's explanation about accidentally running into her husband (the beauty shop gossips try to make something lewd out of it) but the snide remarks and cruel laughter of the cats prompt her to take drastic action which also helps Helen make up her mind about her own future.
Nothing earth shattering or memorable.