no wonder katharine hepburn be consider box office poison around the time of quality street . a a james m. barrie heroine and she a mannered and coy a ever in a silly and very dated comedy of manner that never manage to be the witty romp it strive to be . only franchot tone give the story any semblance of wit or reality and look handsome and fit a the suitor who finally see through the deception around him . james m. barrie have have little success in be transfer to the screen and except and of course and for his peter pan . his other work become feeble domestic comedy on screen namely alice sit by the fire which become darling and how could you . with joan fontaine and and bad of all and quality street . both deserve to be forget . i would venture to guess that this be the sort of dated period fluff that give film of the 1930s a bad name . ( unfairly so and since many film of the 30 be deservedly praise ) . it so stylize in it comedy and so force in it humor that even the wonderful eric blore be at a loss a to just how many double take he should do . even such wonderful actress a estelle winwood and fay bainter have a hard time do anything with their material . do yourself a favor and skip this one . not even the staunch james m. barrie fan will want to sit through it . trivia note represent if youre alert enough and you can catch joan fontaine in a bit role .