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Jennie Jones, a poor clerk, hesitates to accept Dick Hamilton’s marriage proposal, although they love each other, because she thinks that her employer, John J. Martin, the executor of Dick’s late father’s estate, will find a way to deprive him of his inheritance should they marry. After Dick talks her into saying “yes,” Martin, whose daughter Connie desires Dick, sends him to check on his Montana interests and then tries to buy Jennie off. When she refuses, he fires her and keeps her from getting other work. He also arranges for Dick’s letters to her to be stolen by her roominghouse neighbor, nightclub hostess Millie Sprague. Jennie is soon evicted for non-payment of rent. Not having eaten in two days, she accepts the offer of a man in the park to a meal. The man, in Martin’s employ, lures her to a notorious cafe and gets her drunk. When Dick, having just returned, is told by Martin that Jennie is at the cafe, he goes there and sees the man with his arm around her. After punching the man, Dick is thrown out before Jennie can explain. After Millie finds her unconscious at the roominghouse, she learns from a doctor that Jennie, suffering from starvation and nervous shock, must be hospitalized. Taking her side, Millie puts Jennie in an expensive hospital and forces Martin to foot the bill. When Jennie recovers and learns that Dick has left town, she listens to Millie’s advice to forget him. She soon marries Millie’s boss, racketeer Joe Charney, who showers her with expensive clothes and jewelry in which she takes no interest. Connie, now engaged to Dick, brings him to Joe’s nightclub, and when Jennie sees him, she tries to explain the incident in the cafe, but Dick refuses to listen. Joe, thinking that Jennie still loves Dick, berates her in his office for making a “sap” of him. As she covers her face and cries, someone fires three shots into Joe and plants the gun in her lap. Jennie is tried for Joe’s murder and found guilty. In her statement to the court, she states that she came to the city to find her father, who ran out on her mother and tried to annul their marriage. The marriage, she learned, could not be annulled, and she reveals that she discovered her father to be John Martin. Before Jennie is sentenced, Millie interrupts the proceedings and presents evidence that she and two detectives have gathered, which proves that a colleague of Joe’s was paid to kill him by a competitor. This causes pandemonium in the courtroom, and Dick and Jennie subsequently are reconciled.
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Director: Richard Thorpe Writers: Adeline Leitzbach (story), Carol Webster (screenplay)
Stars:Marian Marsh, Betty Compson, Don Dillaway
Reason of the public domain status: Registered in the year it was made, but not renewed with the Library of Congress.
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Provided you give this film a bit of latitude, you will find it enjoyable. When I say ‘latitude’ I mean that the film’s plot is a bit far-fetched–and provided you just accept this and don’t question this, you’ll probably enjoy it. Jenny Jones (Marian Marsh) is in love with Richard Hamilton. However, her boss is a bit of a nut. Although he has some reason to suspect Jenny’s motives for dating Richard (since she lied to get the job), his behaviors are very strange–and he appears willing to bust up this romance so that his daughter can have Richard! Unable to obtain any damning evidence against Jenny after he has her followed by private detectives, the boss then decides to destroy her. He fires her, of course. But he also makes sure no one will hire her. And, when she’s homeless and hungry, he has an agent set her up so that her fiancé thinks she’s been running around on him. Unfortunately, the boss’ son has little character and instead of seeking the truth, he automatically assumes she’s a tramp. A bit later, Jenny meets a guy (J. Carrol Naish) whose past is a bit shady. However, he’s very good to her and loves her. Having no job, no boyfriend and apparently no future, Jenny marries him. However, when this new husband is killed, Jenny is framed for it! Can she manage to extricate herself from this mess and be found innocent of all blame in this weepy picture? What do you think? Does this all sound a lot like a soap opera? Well, it gets MUCH more soapy during the trial–and I am talking SOAPY!! The summation scene is laid on VERY thick. I would love to say more but don’t want to ruin the film. Suffice to say, you learn a lot more about the boss–and WOW is it crazy!! Now I must admit that the last 20 minutes of the film is insanely improbable and even a tad silly–but it’s also so full of the salacious and juicy stuff that made Pre-Code* films so doggone entertaining. Just turn off your brain and enjoy–the ending is like a roller coaster going out of control!! *Up until mid-1934, Hollywood films were amazingly racy at times. Despite most folks today thinking that everyone was prudish back then, films of the 20s and early 30s occasionally featured nudity, homosexual characters, endorsed adultery, were very violent and occasionally the evil doers got away with it! The problem is that there was no rating system and some of this content obviously was NOT appropriate for kids. However, instead of a rating system like they developed in the late 60s, a public outcry resulted in a new, tough Production Code which banned, well, pretty much EVERYTHING! There is zero possibility that a film like “Notorious But Nice” would be seen in theaters between 1934 and decades later–unless there were a few changes in the plot. I know I am being cryptic, but the final bombshell you hear about in court in a VERY sticky and overdone finale is pretty much THE reason the film couldn’t have been made just a year later.
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