Lovely Eileen Percy started in films while still a teen as a very sweet leading lady in a few Douglas Fairbanks' movies. She later left films to marry Harry Ruby of Kalmar and Ruby song writing fame and was portrayed in the "Three Little Words" film biography by beautiful Arlene Dahl. Her co-star Kenneth Harlan was a popular leading man of the day who found his biggest success in the films he co-starred in with his then wife Marie Prevost, including "The Beautiful and Damned".
This movie was based on an unproduced play by actor Henry Hull, who would be forever known for the movie "The Werewolf of London" (1935). This was also one of the early directorial credits of Irving Cummings. A similar styled story to "Our Blushing Brides" - three girls sharing a tenement flat. Sickly Kit (Maxine Elliot Hicks) who looks on with envy at Eunice who is soon to move out to a Park Avenue penthouse, courtesy of an ardent stockbroker lover and Lory who tries to keep her home life and soul harmonious. Soon her West Side and the East Side of the pampered Van Norman family is going to meet thanks to Dr. Shepley (Charles Mailes). He thinks the Van Norman family lives in an ivory tower of fad diets, nerves and extravagant lifestyles with Duncan's (Harlan) out of touch essay on poverty being the last straw!! He organises for Lory to come in as the family secretary - "this girl has seen poverty you can't find in books"!! he tells a skeptical Duncan. Meanwhile even though Kit envies Eunice her "fringe benefits" Lory informs her that Eunice was only there this morning to borrow $5 - with her charge accounts and inventoried jewellry she is not allowed cash, not the way Lory would want to live. Kit also has her dreams in the form of a cherished letter from a far away uncle promising riches when his ship comes in!!
This is a nice little romance - Kenneth Harlan is always dependable but apart from him and Percy none of the cast caused any ripples. Hicks played a real child in a couple of Mary Pickford films ("Poor Little Rich Girl"). Lucille Hutton who played gad-about Eunice (she disappeared after her interesting first scene - I kept expecting her to come back into it) and Betty May who played Duncan's frivolous sister - both were actress ships who passed in the night!!
This movie was based on an unproduced play by actor Henry Hull, who would be forever known for the movie "The Werewolf of London" (1935). This was also one of the early directorial credits of Irving Cummings. A similar styled story to "Our Blushing Brides" - three girls sharing a tenement flat. Sickly Kit (Maxine Elliot Hicks) who looks on with envy at Eunice who is soon to move out to a Park Avenue penthouse, courtesy of an ardent stockbroker lover and Lory who tries to keep her home life and soul harmonious. Soon her West Side and the East Side of the pampered Van Norman family is going to meet thanks to Dr. Shepley (Charles Mailes). He thinks the Van Norman family lives in an ivory tower of fad diets, nerves and extravagant lifestyles with Duncan's (Harlan) out of touch essay on poverty being the last straw!! He organises for Lory to come in as the family secretary - "this girl has seen poverty you can't find in books"!! he tells a skeptical Duncan. Meanwhile even though Kit envies Eunice her "fringe benefits" Lory informs her that Eunice was only there this morning to borrow $5 - with her charge accounts and inventoried jewellry she is not allowed cash, not the way Lory would want to live. Kit also has her dreams in the form of a cherished letter from a far away uncle promising riches when his ship comes in!!
This is a nice little romance - Kenneth Harlan is always dependable but apart from him and Percy none of the cast caused any ripples. Hicks played a real child in a couple of Mary Pickford films ("Poor Little Rich Girl"). Lucille Hutton who played gad-about Eunice (she disappeared after her interesting first scene - I kept expecting her to come back into it) and Betty May who played Duncan's frivolous sister - both were actress ships who passed in the night!!