Yes, the screwball comedy is nearly an exact replica of the 1934 Frank Capra classic that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In spite of an excellent cast, the film is only moderately entertaining, in which individual scenes outdo the film as a whole. it focuses on reporter Frederick March who has been assigned to locate missing heiress Virginia Bruce who has run away from her department store owner grandfather Claude Gillingwater. Ironically, Bruce gets a job working at her grandfather's main store after befriending clerk Patsy Kelly whose roommate (Nancy Carroll) is running out on her. Carroll also works at the department store and will cause all sorts of trouble when she finds out Bruce's identity. But evidence leads Bruce to believe that it was March who spilt the story, even though all he had gotten as evidence with some photos that he hides from editor Eugene Pallette.
The supporting cast are far better than the leads, with March basically repeating the type of role he had played in the previous year's "Nothing Sacred". Bruce isn't Carole Lombard, playing the role totally straight without any sense of real wackiness and that makes her heroine not as interesting. Kelly is an absolute delight, a force of nature (like a hurricane), first seen in an automat complaining that someone had stolen her chili. Bruce comes in to aide her and gets her a piece of pie as well. The bit actor playing waiter in this scene is absolutely hysterical.
There's also Marjorie Main as a department store customer com demanding a fireless cooker, Alan Mowbray as Kelly'sworking class boyfriend (who speaks with an upper-class accent), Robert Armstrong as a tough detective, Arthur Lake as a newspaper photographer and silent veteran Harry Langdon as a minister. There are several highlights of comedy in the film, including a very memorable musical chairs ice skating sequence, as well as Kelly's constant braying. It's the type of part she could play in her sleep, but she always brought something special into every role she played. If only the leads had more magnetism, this could have been so much better. It's a comedown sadly for early 30's leading lady Carroll who had once co-starred with March.
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