The "He" in question is Geoffrey Clarke (Lowell Sherman), a poet who decides it's time to get married. But when he chooses moneyed widow Alice Frayne (Alice Joyce) over lovely - and loving - Monica (Frances Dade), the slighted woman vengefully marries equally moneyed Austin (David Manners). One attempted shooting and a boat to Europe later, all's well in the end, and Variety concurred this picture is "endowed with brilliant direction [and] acting". This parlor drama, as well as other light, saucy films like The Demi-Bride (1927) and The Cardboard Lover (1928) were written by director F. Hugh Herbert, who would later gain notoriety when he teamed up with Otto Preminger in a united front against the previously ironclad Hays Code, in defense of the 1953 movie adaption of Herbert's play The Moon Is Blue. (Leading man Lowell Sherman had already weathered his own scandal, as one of the participants in the wild party that destroyed Fatty Arbuckle's career.)

By Violet LeVoit