GOD'S GIFT TO WOMEN (1931) ¢ ¢
D: Michael Curtiz
Frank Fay, Laura La Plante, Joan Blondell,
Yola D'Avril, Louise Brooks, Charles Winninger,
Alan Mobray, Margaret Livingston, Tyrell Davis
A frantic and somewhat desperate pre-Code farce about a notorious womanizer who finally meets the girl of his dreams and can't convince anybody that this time he's serious. Frank Fay is a curious choice to play the alleged Don Juan: part Robin Williams, part Danny Kaye, part Edward Everett Horton and part Liberace, if you can imagine something like that. Louise Brooks does a nice bit as (what else?) a party girl, but the fact that she's billed tenth tells you something about the status of her career at the time. She gets one great closeup, though. It's almost worth watching the movie for that.
