Crazy, cute comedies — hilarious and sophisticated at the same time. Only Jean Arthur is able to play it this way. Who else would play a college professor’s peculiar daughter so convincing through and through? Five years ago the magazines criticized, this actress was too intellectual to have success in Hollywood. Today we can’t get enough of her.
James Buchanan (Herbert Marshall), rich and famous designer of automobiles, leaves frustrated a meeting, to find peace in the park. Instead he runs into Miss Arthur’s character, seriously being in trouble: Unable to find a job, after her father recently died — just put out by her landlady. Assuming he’s jobless too, she talks him into a job as butler, so she can be cook as his phony wife. Though, their boss (Leo Carrillo), sort of gangster baron, seriously crushes on his charming cook.
Marshall appears unusually lively at Miss Arthur’s side. Leo Carrillo, as good-hearted, but slightly dangerous and insane gangster boss, is very amusing. Of course the charmingly crazy love story happens between Marshall and Arthur.
Clarissa Smith — December 25, 1935
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