Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Norma Shearer headlines this domestic drama as a chorus girl who weds a British nobleman before trying to start anew with a young man who loves her. Footloose and fancy-free American heiress Mary has been married to Lord Rexford (Herbert Marshall) for five years when, urged on by her fun-loving aunt, she vacations on the Riviera, where she reunites with her ex-boyfriend Tommie (Robert Montgomery). A drunken mistake leads to scandal and possible divorce, but Mary strives to make everything right again. Walter Brennan plays a small comedic role.

Dartmouth football heroes Johnny Baker (William Gargan) and Sandy Brown (Joel McCrea) – famed for their Baker-to-Brown passing game – go their separate ways after graduation: Johnny to the editor's desk of a newspaper sports page and Sandy to the promotional schemes of a wrestling manager nicknamed Shifty. The friends' paths merge again when Johnny helps Sandy out of tough economic times, but their renewed friendship teeters toward permanent collapse when both men woo a lovely newspaper illustrator (Marian Marsh). David O. Selznick is executive producer of this pre-Code programmer, overseeing the array of visual flourishes conjured by Dudley Murphy (director of the following year's The Emperor Jones and a co director of the earlier avant-garde Ballet mécanique). Algonquin Round Table wit Robert Benchley makes his feature debut as an always-befuddled sportscaster.