An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.
Acting
Anne Shirley's unhinged matchmaker energy carries the whole thing.
Writing
Snappy 1930s dialogue that actually lands the absurd premise.
Director
David Burton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anne Shirley was 18 playing 14, already a veteran of 40+ films since her child star days as Dawn O'Day.
This B-picture exemplifies how 1930s studios churned out zippy 65-minute programmers to fill double bills—efficiency as art.
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