Synopsis for
Platinum Blonde (1931)

Reporter is platonic friends with a colleague girl reporter who secretly loves him. Covering a breach of promise story, he meets the young and wealthy socialite Ann Schuyler, who is rather wild in contrast to her conservative family. Despite/ because he covers the story despite her family's attempted bribery and her pleas and because he obtains and returns the love letters she sent to her ex-beau without payment, they fall in love and secretly marry. He is insistent that he won't be a kept husband but, despite his colleagues' jeers, his wife increasingly sucks him into her leisured lifestyle. In reality, he can't fit into her social set and she can't fit into his. It all blows up when he denounces her friends' worthless lives and refuses to go to a party with her. In her absence, her invites some friends round, who turn the mansion into a free for all. On her return, she protests 'It's my house', he walks out and, refusing alimony, marries his lovelorn reporter colleague, who has been around all along.