Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is good. He played variations on this role many times but is not to be faulted for that.
Laura La Plante doesn't look beautiful, by any means. However, she looks maybe a year, not 22 years, younger than she does in "Spring Reunion." In that she plays Betty Hutton's mother. (And it's a much more interesting movie.) Margaret Lockwood, as the wealthy young woman originally involved with Fairbanks, looks lovely. We're not meant to like her character and we don't.
The La Plante character is about to commit suicide as the movie opens and generally seems unstable. Such problems are not at all funny in real life.
Laura La Plante doesn't look beautiful, by any means. However, she looks maybe a year, not 22 years, younger than she does in "Spring Reunion." In that she plays Betty Hutton's mother. (And it's a much more interesting movie.) Margaret Lockwood, as the wealthy young woman originally involved with Fairbanks, looks lovely. We're not meant to like her character and we don't.
The La Plante character is about to commit suicide as the movie opens and generally seems unstable. Such problems are not at all funny in real life.