"Howlingly hilarious...as her penniless boy friend smacks some sense into her!" 13 September 1940 Comedy 79 mins
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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George Murphy as Alan Blake
Brenda Joyce as Penny Cooper
Charles Ruggles as Milburn
Ralph Bellamy as Bruce Fairchild
Mischa Auer as Grisha
Elsa Maxwell as Herself
Lloyd Corrigan as Hugh Stackett
Franklin Pangborn as Bartender
Maxie Rosenbloom as Eric
Berton Churchill as Judge
Ivan Lebedeff as Feodor
Elisha Cook Jr. as Communist
Hobart Cavanaugh as Mr. Schlitz
Mary Gordon as Landlady
Chester Clute as Car Payment Man
Charles Judels as Ivan
Travis Banton Costume Design
Karl Tunberg Writer
Gregory Ratoff Director
Darryl F. Zanuck Producer
Robert L. Simpson Editor
Thomas Little Set Dressing Artist
Karl Tunberg Story
Rudolph Sternad Art Direction
Richard Day Art Direction
Darrell Ware Writer
Don Ettlinger Story
Ernest Palmer Director of Photography
United States 13 September 1940
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When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Brenda Joyce gets it OTK from George Murphy in 1940's classic.
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