The New York World-Telegram and Sun found much to criticize: "film conducts a spectacular travesty of some of Hollywood's preposterously lush nooks without stirring any notable amount of mirth. And it follow's Hollywood's predatory smothering of an impulsive, endearing Cinderella without stirring much sentiment or sympathy...Oh! This pathetic innocent is hurt, hurt, hurt but no one cares, cares, cares so long as her picture is finished and rolls in dough, dough, dough...The makers of the picture do not care to make themselves altogether clear but there are hints of the depravity of its Hollywood in fleeting insinuations of dope and homosexuality. The orgies of sex and liquor are much more explicitly presented...Wood seems about to become the movies' biggest dubbing job since Rita Hayworth made her long series of musicals, coming equipped with a different voice for nearly every picture."