The read
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 86% of the 228 1930s comedy movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
71 audience votes
Key crew
- Mitchell LeisenDirector
- Preston SturgesScreenplay
- Victor YoungOriginal Music Composer
- Gordon JenkinsOriginal Music Composer
- Gregory StoneOriginal Music Composer
- Friedrich HollaenderOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Jean ArthurMary Smith
- Edward ArnoldJ.B. Ball
- Ray MillandJohn Ball Jr.
- Mary NashMrs. Jenny Ball
- Franklin PangbornVan Buren
- Luis AlberniMr. Louis Louis
- Barlowe BorlandMr. Gurney
- William DemarestWallace Whistling
- Andrew TombesE.J. Hulgar
- Esther DaleLillian
- Harlan BriggsMagazine Office Manager
- William B. DavidsonMr. Hyde
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Themes
hotelnew york citywealthfur coatmillionairescrewball comedysableluxury hotelfinancierautomat1930sfather son conflict