Ginger Rogers' popularity drove this unremarkable comedy to a decent box office gross. She's another of her ordinary girls who falls in with a millionaire, Walter Connolly and pretends to be his mistress, and that gives Connolly respect.
Connolly was a B list older actor - I wish there'd been a Charles Laughton or someone - but he's fine. He died not long after this - they didn't live long back in the day.
The family are boring - this was a versuon of My Man Godfrey. Son is a pompous twist as played by Tim Holt (whose non Westerns tended to be classics... not this one). Daughter dates a commie which has novelty. Wife flirts around. Family aren't interesting. Rogers seems bored.
There's a reason why no one remembers this much.
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