Feeling she was going nowhere at Warner Bros., Joan Blondell left the studio in 1939 to freelance. For her first film at Columbia, and the first of two with director Alexander Hall and leading man Melvyn Douglas, she entered screwball territory as a waitress out to get to Paris any way she can. When her conscience keeps her from blackmailing a wealthy young man from the nearby college, she takes on the problems of a wealthy New York family, learning that, as her friend college professor Douglas had counseled her, "Good girls go to Paris, too." That was the film's original title before the Production Code deemed it too suggestive, so Columbia simply dropped the last word. Blondell was filling in for Jean Arthur, for whom the studio had bought Lenore J. Coffee and William J. Cowen's story "Miss Aesop Butters Her Bread." Blondell and Douglas prove an amiable team, with strong support from Walter Connolly as an irascible old tycoon, Isabel Jeans as his flighty daughter-in-law, Alexander D'Arcy as a fortune hunter and Clarence Kolb as the temperamental father of one of Blondell's marks. Look closely to spot Dorothy Comingore as Blondell's boss and Robert Sterling as a student.

By Frank Miller