This sophisticated comedy about a bunch of upper class folks who don't take
marriage seriously and fidelity is merely an option seem never to have heard of
the Great Depression going on all around them. This film from Pathe Studios
starring Constance Bennett, Kenneth McKenna, and Basil Rathbone is firmly in
the pre-Code era.
Not for any naughty scenes or really risque dialog. It's merely the whole attitude toward marriage. Kenneth McKenna who incidentally is a divorce lawyer proposes marriage to plain jane Constance Bennett. Her function is to be a wife in name only so he can play to his heart's content and never be concerned with getting trapped by one of his female dates. He even sends Bennett off to Europe.
Where under the tutelage of Rathbone, Bennett gets a makeover that could have come from Queer Eye for the straight girl. Rathbone who is part of their terribly sophisticated set is impressed enough with his own creation to make a play for her.
I realize that in the Great Depression folks when they got an extra nickel went to the movies for a bit of escapism. This wasn't escapism it was pure fantasy land. I really couldn't take this at all seriously.
Some good players, some good performers thoroughly wasted.
Not for any naughty scenes or really risque dialog. It's merely the whole attitude toward marriage. Kenneth McKenna who incidentally is a divorce lawyer proposes marriage to plain jane Constance Bennett. Her function is to be a wife in name only so he can play to his heart's content and never be concerned with getting trapped by one of his female dates. He even sends Bennett off to Europe.
Where under the tutelage of Rathbone, Bennett gets a makeover that could have come from Queer Eye for the straight girl. Rathbone who is part of their terribly sophisticated set is impressed enough with his own creation to make a play for her.
I realize that in the Great Depression folks when they got an extra nickel went to the movies for a bit of escapism. This wasn't escapism it was pure fantasy land. I really couldn't take this at all seriously.
Some good players, some good performers thoroughly wasted.