Lady By Choice (1934 David Burton)

A follow-up, I guess, to 1933's Capra movie Lady For a Day, also featuring May Robson as the delinquent old, adopted here by 'fan dancer' Carole Lombard. When we finally see the dance, those fans - they're massive - could have hidden a whole Busby Berkeley chorus behind them - were they specially designed by the Hays Office?

Robson - 76 here - is best known to us from Bringing Up Baby and A Star Is Born. She reforms rather too quickly for my taste.

With Walter Connelly, Roger Pryor, Arthur Hohl, Raymond Walburn.

Nicely lit by Ted Tetzlaff, one of ten Lombard films he photographed in the thirties. Written by Jo Swerling from Dwight Taylor story.

Not bad - Lombard-Robson partnership, the usually exasperated Connelly, and Tetzlaff, the best things. Columbia.