Remember the Night (1939, released 1940, Mitchell Leisen)

If ever there was a film to make you say "Aw, shucks!", this is it.
Written by Preston Sturges.

Nice DA Fred MacMurray eventually falls for bad girl Barbara Stanwyck. Beulah Bondi is mom, Snowflake the help.

Preston Sturges must have liked Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as he cast him when he directed Palm Beach Story

ph. Ted Tetzlaff, mus. Frederick Hollander, ed. Doane Harrison. Paramount, of course