Small town girl Loretta Dalrymple (Marion Davies) arrives in the big city and becomes a hotel chambermaid. She befriends penniless guests, photographer Ed Olson (Frank McHugh) and promoter Dan Riley (Pat O'Brien). The boys enter an advertising contest. Ed sends in a composite photo called Dawn Glory and the image wins. Radio celebrity Bingo Nelson (Dick Powell) is rumored to be engaged to Dawn Glory and it becomes a media circus. The boys need a real girl and their cohort Gladys Russell (Mary Astor) does a makeover on Loretta to look exactly like the advertisement.
It's a fun screwball premise, but I can improve upon it. Ed should take a fleeting image of Loretta without realizing it. That would be Dawn Glory and he spends most of the movie searching for the girl who is literally under his nose. As for this film, there are lots of fun actors doing fun characters. It's light screwball fun.
It's a fun screwball premise, but I can improve upon it. Ed should take a fleeting image of Loretta without realizing it. That would be Dawn Glory and he spends most of the movie searching for the girl who is literally under his nose. As for this film, there are lots of fun actors doing fun characters. It's light screwball fun.