Well acted - by Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Shirley Temple, Sir Guy Standing and Charlotte Granville - though rather clunkily put together by Hathaway. A rare Lombard film that was actually made at her home studio Paramount, thus it's a surprise it's not Ted Tetzlaff behind the camera but someone called Harry Fischbeck.
There's a moment where Temple looks adoringly up at Daddy, then over to Lombard and her face registers - there's something wrong. It's brilliant - she really knew what she was doing.
The ending is a bit of a cop out, written by Vincent Lawrence and Sylvia Thalberg from story 'Honor Bright' by Jack Kirkland and Melville Baker.
Best Lombard films: To Be Or Not To Be, In Name Only, True Confession, Nothing Sacred, My Man Godfrey, The Princess Comes Across, Twentieth Century.
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