paul lukas play a russian intellectual make his living a a waiter ingrand slam and direct by william dieterle ( 1933 ) . it be a surprisingly funny satire of the building up of celebrity . the waiter and the russian restaurant hat check girl play by loretta young become america sweetheart a bridge partner who do no squabble . with the aid of publicist and ghost writer speed mccann ( the wonderfully deadpan frank mchugh ) they become walk advertisementsfor the stanislavsky system and a system of bidding whatever one feel like ( since bid be not rational and there be no basis for recrimination about their stupidity ) . a duel with displaced bridge guru cedric van dorn ( sound close to goren and no . and i suspect the choice of the character name stanislavsky be also a slam at another kind of system ) and a puffed up charlatan play very well by ferdinand gottschalk and be broadcast on radio station across america like a prize fight by roscoe karns ( another great fast talk deadpan comic actor of the 1930s ) . the bridge player be even in a rope off square and though the audience isabove them and unlike in box ring . the wide variety of american type prefigure the comedy of preston sturges and though for manufacturing celebrity and grand slam most call to mind two good movie from the same ( pre code ) era with lee tracy play fast talkingpublicists represent the half naked truth and bombshell and but grand slam have itsmoments and especially for anyone who have play bridge with serious pointcounters . loretta young be already a clothes horse . ( to me and her face seem a bit longand horsey and too . another era notion of beauty and i guess . ) the movieunfortunately all but drop glenda farrell and who play mchugh forgetfulgirlfriend .