Seeing beautiful Claire Dodd's name in the cast meant that Fay Wray is going to have a few uncomfortable moments, as Claire tries to come between her and her crooner husband. As sultry singer Carole Rogers she doesn't succeed in breaking them up but she has a lot of fun trying. Fay is handed a terrific role and pulls out all stops. She plays Ann Carver who is working her way through college and a law digress but gives it all up for marriage with the local football hero Bill Graham (Gene Raymond). At first she is happy enough to be a housewife but when she gets into a heated discussion with noted lawyer (Claude Gillingwater) about just what he is doing wrong in his latest case, she is given a job. Ann gets a chance to prove herself when she has to take over a case - a tricky one involving a coloured girl passing for white. It is all a bit distasteful with the prosecutor citing "only an imbecile couldn't tell" and after the poor girl is required to reveal a shoulder, Ann brings in a group of girls to see if the prosecutor is an imbecile or not!! Her grandstanding ways win the case but also brings hers fame and notoriety - which she laps up and Bill, who initially was supportive, now looks around for a better paying job.
He finds it, much to Ann's disgust as a "crooner" in a local night club but he also finds trouble in the form of sultry singer Carole Rogers. When Carole manages to strangle herself in a drunken stupor of course Bill gets the blame and the ending finds Ann, who is defending Bill, making an impassioned speech to the jury members about how much she should have been satisfied with being a housewife but being selfish and unfeeling wanted a career in the spotlight!!!
I hadn't ever thought of Fay Wray as a particularly strong actress but she definitely made the most of her part, in what I thought was an unusual role for a woman at that time, it was usually the men who had these show stopping lawyer parts. Gene Raymond who was signed by Paramount because of his Broadway reputation as the "nearly perfect juvenile" used his blonde good looks to advantage here and was not required to do anything very histrionic - except in a night club scene where he is observed by Ann kissing Carole, Ann walks out after giving him the ultimate insult of throwing pennies at his feet, therein which he chokes up but bravely finishes his song!!
He finds it, much to Ann's disgust as a "crooner" in a local night club but he also finds trouble in the form of sultry singer Carole Rogers. When Carole manages to strangle herself in a drunken stupor of course Bill gets the blame and the ending finds Ann, who is defending Bill, making an impassioned speech to the jury members about how much she should have been satisfied with being a housewife but being selfish and unfeeling wanted a career in the spotlight!!!
I hadn't ever thought of Fay Wray as a particularly strong actress but she definitely made the most of her part, in what I thought was an unusual role for a woman at that time, it was usually the men who had these show stopping lawyer parts. Gene Raymond who was signed by Paramount because of his Broadway reputation as the "nearly perfect juvenile" used his blonde good looks to advantage here and was not required to do anything very histrionic - except in a night club scene where he is observed by Ann kissing Carole, Ann walks out after giving him the ultimate insult of throwing pennies at his feet, therein which he chokes up but bravely finishes his song!!