Plot Summary - Comedy in which a small-town, innocent girl named Loretta (Marion Davies) - dowdy in unflattering clothing, sensible shoes, little make-up, and a hat the completely covers her hair - arrives in NYC, her first trip to the big city. She gets herself hired on as chambermaid at a fancy hotel, the "Park Regis", and is soon cleaning rooms with her new sidekick, chambermaid Betty (Patsy Kelly). Soon the two are seen cleaning up the rooms of a couple of "floor crashers", con men Click (Pat O'Brien) and Ed (Frank McHugh), who are four weeks past due on their hotel bill and have been asked to vacate. Hearing of a radio beauty contest with a $2,500 cash prize being awarded for a photo of the "most beautiful girl", the two con-men go into their dark room and create a fake "composite" photo to submit. The photo of the girl who only exists in a photo "Dawn Glory" wins the contest. But now they are being chased down by the press, and various advertising sponsors who want to meet Miss Glory. Meanwhile, Loretta has developed a big schoolgirl style crush on world famous aviator, Bingo Nelson (Dick Powell), a rather dizzy (too many loop-the-loops, I guess), but good-looking flyboy. He arrives to stay at the Park Regis and falls in love with Dawn Glory's photo (while Loretta meets her dream man in person and swoons over him). Soon our flyboy has made an on the air proposal of marriage to Miss Glory (silly fellow) and Click and Ed recruit the maid Loretta to accept him over the air. Now here's the weird part - Loretta puts on a dress made to look like Miss Glory's in her poster, gets herself a "Dawn Glory" bob (the latest rage) and looks so much like the fake photo, she is recruited to play the part!
Review - Cute film, lots of silly fun. I love Marion Davies, she's SO funny and charming in this - and she really lets her hair down by appearing on screen for half the film in a maid's outfit, and dumpy appearance. Dick Powell is good in his part as the ditz aviator - they seem like a perfect match, actually. A number of well known character actors from the thirties also appear in this film - - and hey, Mary Astor is also in this, as the two con men's female sidekick/Ed's girl. Quite an amusing romp. Rating - 8.5/10 stars
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