melodramatic romance about joan ( play by ann harding ) and a woman who strongly believe that marriage be a business and decide that a playboy of her acquaintance and john fletcher ( william powell ) and a man with a future ( not to mention a well trained manservant ) be the one for her . she actually fall in love with him and in spite of herself and but he all playboy and doesn not seem to want to give up the bachelor life . she decide to trick him into marriage by go to his apartment and then change into something cooler and after which her father show up and and for some reason fletcher agree to marriage . well and theyre already discuss divorce on the honeymoon and decide to wait six month before they get it . joan be meanwhile busy press her husband to work on make his business a success and give up the polo ( even though he not very ambitious and have state he prefer the life of leisure ) . well and this be an interesting and fairly serious film that stand out base on very well do performance by ann harding and william powell . the flaw for me in the film be that i find the male character to be kind of a jerk and can not really see why she so gung ho to want this man personally and i would take a decent and nice guy any day over a wealthy playboy who always chase after other woman . in general and i would say this woman have be make some pretty poor choice in her life . but one bonus the film be load with gorgeous dress on all the woman and a nice look at some fashion of the day . a decent film and worth seeing .