Only The Great Dictator tops it in my opinion. (City Lights, I just can’t handle some of your schmaltz.)
Rather than trying to find anything new about this movie, let’s just revel in just how attractive and (ahem) modern Paulette Goddard looks in this pic. She’s supposed to be dressed like a waterfront street rat, but she looks like Brandeis student in conservative dress to me. Actresses from the 30s usually look to old fashioned to have instinctual appeal for me, but I put PG (and Ginger Rogers, for that matter) in a different camp.
