Marion Shilling is a model working at Holmes Herbert's fashion house. He spots her, and is interested. She's willing to reciprocate. She has ambition as a designer, and is willing to trade flirtation for entree, and perhaps even more to seal the deal. But Herbert moves too fast, and the auto crashes. Herbert is injured and his daughter, Dorothy Christy, thinks the unwanted attention was on her part. Her fiance, Anthony Bushell, isn't so sure, and Miss Shiling's protective friend, Walter Byron, warns her of a young lady who leapt from Herbert's balcony -- while he was absent, of course. Miss Shilling thinks she can handle any situation that will come up.
It's a pretty good Poverty Row pre-code movie, about the real issues of a woman trying to get ahead in a world ruled by male egos, even those that are not always obviously on view. It suffers from some structural issues; all the lacy lingerie is on view in the firt reel, and then it turns into a more serious drama. Also, Miss Shilling is not quite up to the role. Her dialogue tends to become speeches, her movements at key moments obviously posed. Still, a good script and th other performers carry this picture well enough.
Miss Shilling had been in the movies for a couple of years by this point, sometimes in medium-sized roles in movies from the major studios. This was an attempt to be the lead, and quite obviously producer Sigmund Neufeld had spent money on sets. His star, however, couldn't quite carry it off, and her roles declined in the B westerns. She made her last movie in 1936, married in 1937, and survived his death more than 60 years later. She died in 2004 at the age of 93.
