In this lively and occasionally witty comedy Joan Crawford loosened up as much as she ever would on screen; interestingly, it took a loan out to Columbia to accomplish the transformation. Here she plays the chairman of the board of a huge trucking company, inherited from her father, who unexpectedly falls in love with a muckraking reporter (Melvyn Douglas) who has been printing unflattering stories about how she runs her business. Instead of the sterile and talky duds that weighed down Crawford's career, this off-the-beaten-track entry contains moments of genuine comic imagination of the wacky variety. It's the kind of film that would have been perfect for Lucille Ball or Rosalind Russell (actually it was supposed to star Carole Lombard, but she died in a plane crash before filming began) but Crawford rises to the occasion. Allen Jenkins, Mary Treen, Billie Burke and Roland Young are their typically entertaining selves.
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