Sin Takes a Holiday

Racy exteriors establish New York then, not quite Goodfellas but an impressive shot by director Paul L. Stein and cinematographer John Mescall, as lawyer Stanton (Kenneth MacKenna), in a plush night club, reveals to his scheming girlfriend (Rita LaRoy) that he’s cleverly married his secretary (top-billed Connie Bennett), in RKO’s Sin Takes A Holiday, 1930.

Four outfits in about three minutes for Constance Bennett as Sylvia, now in Paris, being squired about by bachelor Durant (Basil Rathbone), enjoying the freedom she earned by marrying, for convenience, her rich lawyer boss (Kenneth MacKenna), pleased with the frustration it causes his ambitious girlfriend (Rita LaRoy), in RKO’s Sin Takes A Holiday, 1930.

Having just married her wealthy lawyer boss, for the sole purpose of ending his own romantic entanglements, secretary Sylvia (Constance Bennett) is headed for Paris as her reward, on an opulent RKO ocean liner, meeting Basil Rathbone as dashing Durand, a bachelor friend of her quasi-husband, in Sin Takes A Holiday, 1930.

At the Riverdale mansion of lawyer Stanton (Kenneth McKenna), his secretary Sylvia (top-billed Constance Bennett), working the evening, helps Richards (Louis John Bartels) when his wife calls, as the clique (John Roche as Sheridan, Basil Rathbone as Durand) confabs, early in Sin Takes a Holiday, 1930.