Jean Muir runs a flower shop in a hotel. Charles Butterworth, the principal shareholder (unknown to her) keeps proposing to her. The hotel wants to evict her in favor of a better-paying tenant. John Boles is the lawyer hired to get her out. Unknown to him, his wife is cheating on him, with a friend who buys orchids for her at Miss Muir's flower shop.
That's the broad outline of this movie, and it is all handled very well by director William Seiter, with a cast that includes Arthur Lake, Spring Byington, Sidney Toler (as an Italian flower wholesaler) and Arthur Treacher.. It's all very well acted, but it's more a drama than a comedy. Oh, there are plenty of good bits. Toler is quite funny, Boles sings "Sylvia" and the story and handling keeps things moving right along throughout, so that I never lost interest. It's simply that the title and the Art-Deco opening led me to expect a comedy. Once I realized that, it turned into a good movie.
That's the broad outline of this movie, and it is all handled very well by director William Seiter, with a cast that includes Arthur Lake, Spring Byington, Sidney Toler (as an Italian flower wholesaler) and Arthur Treacher.. It's all very well acted, but it's more a drama than a comedy. Oh, there are plenty of good bits. Toler is quite funny, Boles sings "Sylvia" and the story and handling keeps things moving right along throughout, so that I never lost interest. It's simply that the title and the Art-Deco opening led me to expect a comedy. Once I realized that, it turned into a good movie.