The title refers to "the easiest way" to go from poverty to riches--by sleeping around. Based on a stage play that shocked audiences, this was the second time for this story, the first having been filmed in 1917 (with Clara Kimball Young). Bennett is a poor but decent slum girl who works
in a department store. She is discovered by MacDonald, who takes her away from the drab employment and gets her a job as a model in Menjou's modeling agency. Soon enough she becomes Menjou's mistress and is able to help her family with money received from the suave Adolphe (and was there ever
anything else one could call him but"suave"?), but her new fortune is looked down upon by ...
Released:
1931
Rated:
NR
Length:
86 mins