Dorothy Hunter (Miriam Hopkins) is the "richest girl in the world". She switches places with her secretary (Fay Wray) in order to find a man who won't just love her for her money.
I went into this thinking it was going to be a comedy. Boy, was I wrong.
The Richest Girl in the World is a dreary romance film from RKO. The script so awful (and somehow got nominated for an Oscar!), and the film squanders the talent of Miriam Hopkins. She does her best in a thankless role, but she is saddled with the uncharismatic Joel McCrea as her co-star. McCrea is a not particularly good actor at the best of times, but he's pretty awful here. This film is rather like McCrea's earlier film Chance at Heaven, where he plays a unlikable sap whom the heroine somehow falls in love with. Fay Wray and Reginald Denny are good in supporting roles.
Overall, this one's a stinker.
I went into this thinking it was going to be a comedy. Boy, was I wrong.
The Richest Girl in the World is a dreary romance film from RKO. The script so awful (and somehow got nominated for an Oscar!), and the film squanders the talent of Miriam Hopkins. She does her best in a thankless role, but she is saddled with the uncharismatic Joel McCrea as her co-star. McCrea is a not particularly good actor at the best of times, but he's pretty awful here. This film is rather like McCrea's earlier film Chance at Heaven, where he plays a unlikable sap whom the heroine somehow falls in love with. Fay Wray and Reginald Denny are good in supporting roles.
Overall, this one's a stinker.