That aging playboy Lowell Sherman has all the women in New York ga-ga with his love-making, breaking up homes and even keeping a closet filled with women's clothes (where one size fits all) for convenience. A misunderstanding between sisters Claudia Dell and Irene Dunne brings Dunne to Sherman's penthouse and within days, Dunne is working as Sherman's executive secretary, creating a lot of office gossip. At first aloof, she bends her high moral standards when a jealous husband (and old pal of Sherman's) accuses him of having an affair with his wife (Madge Murray) who has been trying to seduce Sherman for months.
While this certainly creates the right atmosphere of the working girl's life during depression era New York City, it lacks in credibility with Sherman's eternal playboy character, played by him far too often after he was truly a bit long in the tooth. The double-chinned, portly Sherman even directed this (as usual), giving it an egotistical smell that left me shaking my head. Dunne comes off unscathed as she is always likable, but Mae Murray (as the pesky married woman stalking Sherman) is entirely obnoxious. This is still interesting for its pre-code elements if you can stomach watching Sherman constantly ogling the young ladies like some lecherous old fool.
While this certainly creates the right atmosphere of the working girl's life during depression era New York City, it lacks in credibility with Sherman's eternal playboy character, played by him far too often after he was truly a bit long in the tooth. The double-chinned, portly Sherman even directed this (as usual), giving it an egotistical smell that left me shaking my head. Dunne comes off unscathed as she is always likable, but Mae Murray (as the pesky married woman stalking Sherman) is entirely obnoxious. This is still interesting for its pre-code elements if you can stomach watching Sherman constantly ogling the young ladies like some lecherous old fool.