The movie opens with William Powell and ends with him, since his character is the main character in the story. Lombard plays the love interest (and not a very interesting one...)
If you read the plot summary you get the idea of a sophisticated comedy starring Lombard as an American socialite who happens to meet her supporting love interest in Paris, in a sparkly development à la "My man Godfrey".
Instead, this is a drama about Michael, a failed journalist, turned blackmailer, who happens to fall for Mary, one of his victims, but their lukewarm love story is nipped in the bud by Michael's ex lover, Irene (a sexy Wynne Gibson).
Irene gets as much screen time as Mary and is a much more vivid character, also wearing some beautiful costumes, the most striking being a super sexy evening gown in her first scene.
Power does a nice turn as Michael the blackmailer; unfortunately the plot development is slow and clumsy and the ending rhetorical and dissatisfactory.
If you read the plot summary you get the idea of a sophisticated comedy starring Lombard as an American socialite who happens to meet her supporting love interest in Paris, in a sparkly development à la "My man Godfrey".
Instead, this is a drama about Michael, a failed journalist, turned blackmailer, who happens to fall for Mary, one of his victims, but their lukewarm love story is nipped in the bud by Michael's ex lover, Irene (a sexy Wynne Gibson).
Irene gets as much screen time as Mary and is a much more vivid character, also wearing some beautiful costumes, the most striking being a super sexy evening gown in her first scene.
Power does a nice turn as Michael the blackmailer; unfortunately the plot development is slow and clumsy and the ending rhetorical and dissatisfactory.