RKO Radio Pictures' adaptation of the Alden Nash stage play And Let Who Will Be Clever was rechristened We're Rich Again (1934) for general release, no doubt in a bid to reassure Depression era moviegoers that things would, no matter how zanily contrived, work out for the best. Though she receives top billing, Edna May Oliver (fresh from playing snoopy sleuth Hildegarde Withers for the second time, in RKO's Murder on the Blackboard [1934]) keeps to the periphery of this screwball comedy, as the mother-in-law of formerly affluent, now insolvent family man Grant Mitchell (ruined previously in Wild Boys of the Road [1933]), who races to marry off daughter Joan Marsh to stockbroker Reginald Denny before he is hauled to debtor's prison. Complicating matters is the arrival of country cousin Marian Nixon (wife of director William Seiter), whose intrusive demeanor threatens to ruin the family but leads to salvation at the eleventh hour. Billie Burke costars as Mitchell's clueless better half (a comic turn in step with her role in George Cukor's Dinner at Eight, 1933) but the film's casting coup, to modern eyes, is Buster Crabbe, stripped to his swim trunks two years shy of pop culture immortality as the star of the Universal serial Flash Gordon (1936).

By Richard Harland Smith