I do have a serious problem with this story was it is essentially about making prostitution OK if you want the reach you goals. I am surprised that so many people rate this movie higher than how I see it.

A classic screwball comedy. Solid but far from being hilarious, romantic, educative or sexy. That said, some aspects like the Mid-Atlantic English, the train and historic fashion (and their prices) are awesome. > *"Tipping is un-American."* J.D. Hackensacker III (cf. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/30/457125740/when-tipping-was-considered-deeply-un-american)

Got off to a bad start with me, because both the opening Weenie King scene as well as the gun club scene went on for far too long. But there's serious humor here, along with a great romance story, and it all won me over in the end. When not bogged down by those two scenes, it moves along breezily and I loved it. Sturges has a knack for making comedies that are incredibly sexy and adult and somehow evaded the Code, and here, the "zipping the dress" scenes are really quite something.

It is a classic American comedy.

I thought it was a minor picture from the master of comedies like Preston m