Plot Summary - Precode comedy/soap opera/love triangle starring Marion Davies as Blondie, NYC uptown tenement gal whose best gal pal Lottie (Billie Dove) gets a job in the Follies and has soon gone Park Avenue, wearing silver fox furs and very slinky robes (that seem just on the edge of popping open!) - apparently she's being kept by millionaire playboy Larry Belmont (Robert Montgomery). When Blondie goes to visit Lottie at her fancy Park Avenue digs, she meets handsome Larry and they hit it off, much to Lottie's distress. Soon Blondie is out on the town with Larry, getting drunk at a speakeasy, and worrying her family by staying out until dawn without phoning! Dad is mad. Larry thinks "she's cute", Blondie thinks the same about Larry (and me too!). But when Lottie declares her love for Larry, she also declares him hands off - Blondie, a good girl, backs off immediately. But that doesn't stop her from meeting her own older "sugar daddy", joining the Follies, and getting set up in her own Park Avenue apartment.
Review - This is a fun to watch, very entertaining film. The movie starts right off the bat with a rolling on the floor cat fight between Blondie and Lottie (they DO fight a lot, then make up throughout the film). Robert Montgomery is his usual charm boy self - I'm crazy for that handsome fellow!! Marion Davies is quite funny, her big blue eyes full of expression in this film. And - the two of them have loads of chemistry together, I must say. Fun party scene with Jimmy Durante as himself and Marion doing a spot-on imitation of Greta Garbo in "Grand Hotel (1932)". Zasu Pitts also appears in this film, as Blondie's sister (rather a small part, unfortunately). Nice looking print as screened on TCM. I liked this one a lot. Rating - 9 to 9.5/10 stars
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