Angered by his wife's lavish tastes, a rich banker throws one of her many fur coats out of the window. The coat lands on the head of an unsuspecting young woman, whose little feathered hat gets damaged. Determined to get redress for her hat, she sets out to seek the culprit...
A pleasantly amusing comedy full of comical misunderstandings and mistaken identities. Jean Arthur (she of the feathered hat) is an absolutely irresistable heroine. Watch her kill off her beloved ceramic pig in order to free the pennies contained inside : it's priceless.
Much attention was paid to the sets. It results in some memorably tacky surroundings, such as a luxury bathroom full of kitsch statuary and pseudo-helpful water jets.
In spite of its lightness of tone the movie works as an indictment of the essentially irrational and capricious nature of capitalist economy ; I do not know whether this was the intent or not. In the movie, stocks rise or fall, enterprises flourish or fade, all depending on the word of Someone Who Knows Something - or worse, all depending on what is supposed to be the word of Someone Who Knows Something. None of this has any relationship to the honesty, success, social usefulness or sustainability of the firms and industries involved. Three or four human generations later the same phenomenon applies... Also still relevant, the "influencer" phenomenon, where people flock like pigeons to a particular hotel not because they like the hotel, but because they believe a celebrity or want to follow her example.
On the other hand, the fur industry seems to have declined in popularity, which is all to the good...
A pleasantly amusing comedy full of comical misunderstandings and mistaken identities. Jean Arthur (she of the feathered hat) is an absolutely irresistable heroine. Watch her kill off her beloved ceramic pig in order to free the pennies contained inside : it's priceless.
Much attention was paid to the sets. It results in some memorably tacky surroundings, such as a luxury bathroom full of kitsch statuary and pseudo-helpful water jets.
In spite of its lightness of tone the movie works as an indictment of the essentially irrational and capricious nature of capitalist economy ; I do not know whether this was the intent or not. In the movie, stocks rise or fall, enterprises flourish or fade, all depending on the word of Someone Who Knows Something - or worse, all depending on what is supposed to be the word of Someone Who Knows Something. None of this has any relationship to the honesty, success, social usefulness or sustainability of the firms and industries involved. Three or four human generations later the same phenomenon applies... Also still relevant, the "influencer" phenomenon, where people flock like pigeons to a particular hotel not because they like the hotel, but because they believe a celebrity or want to follow her example.
On the other hand, the fur industry seems to have declined in popularity, which is all to the good...