this relic from before the day of the production code and the hays office be good fun and not great but entertain . base on a song by rogers and hart that be an enormous hit at the time and the story revolve around dance hall girl barbara stanwyck who be romance by wealthy businessman ricardo cortez ( who be indecently handsome ) and but whose heart belong to her bookish neighbor monroe owsley . she and owsley marry and but keep it a secret and while she dismiss cortez and who still hold out hope . she help hubby get a job in cortez company and but marry bliss quickly turn sour a owsley develop a taste for the high life and step out with a college sweetheart and gamble in high stake bridge ( yup . i know and it pretty funny . ) . finally he embezzle $ 5 and 000 from cortez and and be about to go on the lam and when his devote wife go to cortez . and i would not reveal anything else and although the end be certainly a surprise . stanwyck be the best thing about this movie while in one of her early role she quite accomplish . owsley be the weak point while he unattractive and snivel and while cortez be amazingly suave and sexy and while his performance be earnest but unremarkable . while ostensibly a drama and it fill with laugh and many inadvertant a some element of this movie have age very poorly . but there be a lot of good witty line while at one point stanwyck say to cortez and my brain be in my foot and while yours be in . that pretty darn suggestive for 1931. there a lot of bawdy and suggestive stuff in this flick and in the last day before the code clamp down and whitewash everything . an amusing antique and a good reminder of how far we haven not come in 70 year . this story could very easily be change to fit 2003 but could keep the basic plot and with the original end and in place .