Paris as heaven. Davis lacks a single look but provides some acting in a movie that doesn't call for it. At one point she anticipates Veronica Lake. Her blonde hair and her many looks in Orry-Kelly are prominent. The plot is carried by William Powell and is of only incidental significance. The home run here is Berkeley's ostrich feather fan dance sequence which has a shot that tracks from overhead as a long shot to a close up in a dreamscape of white plumes. There are rows of harps on pedestals with jeweled strings as framed by stationary dancers This musical piece is a seamstress's dream as winds blow the feathers into a room where white feather fans on a high level open to white fans at a lower level that open to a blonde model wrapped in feathers to a room of fan dancers on many staircase levels. The camera moves through several settings to dancers in pairs to groups from overhead and also underneath as kaleidoscopes to the magisterial overhead shot of the blonde surrounded by 3 circles of blondes covered in white feathers rotating as the camera closes in to the close up of the center blonde who waves. Followed by a series of close ups of the dancers dressed in feathers with diaphanous feather backgrounds singing "... spin a little web of dreams". Then to tracking and close ups culminating in a boat with rowers on rubbery waving waves, etc. A Berkeley masterpiece.
Review of Fashions of 1934
