This 1930 comedy was made to cash in on Winnie Lightner's success in her film debut, The Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929). Lightner was a spirited clown who could also sing, but her career was derailed when musicals became a glut on the market by 1930. In fact, all but one of the numbers recorded for this film were cut. The picture was also shot in two-strip Technicolor, but that version appears to be lost. Lightner stars as Flo, a song plugger whose partner, Dot (Irene Delroy), is so pretty men are too busy flirting with her to buy much music. When they lose their jobs, Lightner suggests snaring rich husbands, so they take a dressmaker for all the couture they can carry and then take off for Havana, at that time a playground for the rich, setting the stage for a comedy of mistaken identities. As usual, director Roy Del Ruth keeps the action moving quickly, and the film offers some priceless location footage of Broadway in 1930, and the type of risqué humor that flourished in the pre-Code years. With the first cycle of screen musicals at an end, Lightner's career didn't last long. She married Del Ruth and retired altogether in 1934.

By Frank Miller