As one who loves old Hollywood movies and has been recently discovering old ones I haven't seen before, this was an interesting find. I was surprised to find this early Hollywood movie about down-and-out New Yorkers with 4 actors well-known to old movie buffs: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, and John Qualen.
Fairbanks Jr. Was very good playing a charming (but not-too-successful) con man, Mitchell solid as ever, and Qualen very good in a larger role than I was used to seeing him in, but the real joy in this movie was Hayworth: charming and endearing as a heart-of-gold showgirl. And as other reviewers have noted, she projected the Marilyn Monroe persona long before anyone had heard of Monroe. She looked and sounded like Marilyn in a charming performance. Did Marilyn copy Rita Hayworth's style in this movie? Don't know...
While not a great movie, it was overall an interesting one, namely to see stars in unexpected "loser"-type roles, and to see the young Hayworth's wonderful performance.
Fairbanks Jr. Was very good playing a charming (but not-too-successful) con man, Mitchell solid as ever, and Qualen very good in a larger role than I was used to seeing him in, but the real joy in this movie was Hayworth: charming and endearing as a heart-of-gold showgirl. And as other reviewers have noted, she projected the Marilyn Monroe persona long before anyone had heard of Monroe. She looked and sounded like Marilyn in a charming performance. Did Marilyn copy Rita Hayworth's style in this movie? Don't know...
While not a great movie, it was overall an interesting one, namely to see stars in unexpected "loser"-type roles, and to see the young Hayworth's wonderful performance.