Olive Borden lived the high life when she was a $1,500 a week actress at Fox. But when sound threatened to change everything about the business of making motion pictures, her wary studio asked her to take a salary cut. Appalled, the outspoken actress walked away from Fox and into a freelance career. Here, sporting her newly bobbed hair, she plays party girl art student Judy Page, who, after a wild soiree in her Greenwich Village apartment, impulsively marries her father's employee Dick Carroll (Morgan Farley). But they've got to battle disapproval not only from her mother (Hedda Hopper, in a pre-gossip column role) but also from romantic rival Tom Stribbing (Anderson Lawler). A lively talky about fast "modern youth", the direction by William J. Cowen lacks the static, stiff quality of many early talkies. (It doesn't hurt that the story is livened up in parts with footage of great boxers of the era in the ring.) Naturally brunette Borden became a blond for her next picture Dance Hall (1929), to much more attention and critical acclaim.

By Violet LeVoit