She's No Lady is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Ann Dvorak, John Trent and Harry Beresford.Horak p.380 It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Plot
Cast
Critical reception Modern Screen’s Leo Townsend wrote, "Cops-and-robbers comedy melodrama, She's No Lady suffers from trite handling by director, players and scenarists. What emerges is decidedly minor entertainment, something you can see and forget almost at the same time … The performances of the two leads are disappointing, neither of them doing well with their supposedly sophisticated roles."
Variety wrote that the style attempted to be "breezy" but "the farce is too heavy-handed. Extreme deftness required to get away with that sort of thing is wholly lacking. It's a hodgepodge that's desperately trying to be flippantly sophisticated in the modern manner with John Trent struggling as a suave master-crook with wisecracks a la William Powell. But playing more like a radio hero - afternoon radio."
About She's No Lady was adapted from James Edward Grant’s original story “Let’s Talk of Love”."Yes, Let's Talk", Daily News (Los Angeles), April 9, 1937. The film was George Bruce's first screenplay to hit the screen.
References
Bibliography Jan-Christopher Horak. Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-garde, 1919-1945. Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
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