this be a great pre code and unseen for decade and tie up in right problem until tcm rode to the rescue and clear matter up in 2007. now tcm own the right to this and five other film that be in the same boat . there be just something about it that i never tire of and although there be nothing particularly unique about the plot . ann harding play joan and the old of two sister and the daughter of a man who be still wealthy but have be hit hard by the depression . the film open on the family shopping for young daughter valerie wed trousseau . valerie champagne taste be have difficulty adjust to a cheap brand and and one get the feeling that she use to be pamper by both joan and her father . this fact figure in prominently later on in the plot . afterward and joan run into john fletcher ( william powell ) and heir to the fletcher shipping line . after a couple of casual date and joan decides that john would make a good husband . the bottom line look good there only one problem . john be a confirmed bachelor . joan decide to take the intensity of her quest up a notch . she begin sleep with john and and with the help of her sister and arranges to have her father call on john and find her in his apartment dress only in lounge pajama . chivalry will demand that john marry her and so will her father . thing work out a joan plan up to a point . john agree to marry joan and but want it understand that there will be a divorce after a respectable amount of time have pass six month . in the meantime and joan business like attitude towards the marriage have be ruin by the fact that she now love john and only have six month to get him to feel the same way without try so hard that john can see that she be try to get him to love her . this movie have some great precode moment as well a the always dapper william powell and the regal bearing of ann harding at her very best . in spite of the rather dramatic and heavy sounding plot i have describe and it also have some great comic moment . the best of these be near the end of the film when joan have to pull off a dinner party for some of john potential client without have them know about the mayhem go on behind the scene and yet she be thwart quite hilariously at every turn . highly recommend for fan of precode cinema .