I'd like to recommend this because I like the cast and director but I found it rather dull. It's not quite funny enough to be a comedy and the romance is improbable and unengaging.
Miriam Hopkins is the richest girl in the world and finds it hard to attract men, because the men don't want to be seen as opportunists. (That proposition is funnier than any of the gags in the movie.) So she switches places with her secretary, the good-natured Fay Wray.
In this guise, she meets Joel McRea, an honest, ordinary sort of bloke. One of Hopkins' staff looks into his background. Not a great deal of money, but the scion of an old Boston family, a broker on Wall Street or something, and a graduate degree from Yale. "About average," says Hopkins' adviser, the avuncular Henry Stephenson, in all seriousness. That's funnier than any of the gags too.
Hopkins decides to put McRea to the test by pushing him in the direction of Fay Wray, who McRea still believes to be the richest girl in the world. Will McRea give up Hopkins (who is REALLY the richest girl in the world) for Fay Wray (who is only PRETENDING to be the richest girl in the world but is already married to King Kong)? Are you kidding? Actually, I would have given up the smitten Miriam Hopkins for Fay Wray in an instant. Wray is better looking, unwittingly sexy, and even as a secretary, she still makes a lot more money than I do. If Fay Wray didn't swoon once within my cloud of pheromones, if she didn't fall for me immediately, I'd have beaten her into it.
Miriam Hopkins is the richest girl in the world and finds it hard to attract men, because the men don't want to be seen as opportunists. (That proposition is funnier than any of the gags in the movie.) So she switches places with her secretary, the good-natured Fay Wray.
In this guise, she meets Joel McRea, an honest, ordinary sort of bloke. One of Hopkins' staff looks into his background. Not a great deal of money, but the scion of an old Boston family, a broker on Wall Street or something, and a graduate degree from Yale. "About average," says Hopkins' adviser, the avuncular Henry Stephenson, in all seriousness. That's funnier than any of the gags too.
Hopkins decides to put McRea to the test by pushing him in the direction of Fay Wray, who McRea still believes to be the richest girl in the world. Will McRea give up Hopkins (who is REALLY the richest girl in the world) for Fay Wray (who is only PRETENDING to be the richest girl in the world but is already married to King Kong)? Are you kidding? Actually, I would have given up the smitten Miriam Hopkins for Fay Wray in an instant. Wray is better looking, unwittingly sexy, and even as a secretary, she still makes a lot more money than I do. If Fay Wray didn't swoon once within my cloud of pheromones, if she didn't fall for me immediately, I'd have beaten her into it.