The Golden Arrow

" [ [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/title.jsp?stid=413943&atid=3945&category=overview "The Golden Arrow" at Turner Classic Movies] ] .

Partially filmed on location in Florida, the Warner Bros. release centers on Johnny Jones, a penniless newspaper reporter who's assigned to interview Daisy Appleby, heiress to the Appleby Facial Creams fortune and the target of numerous suitors anxious to latch onto her wealth. What neither they nor Johnny know is that she's really a cafeteria cashier hired by a public relations team to impersonate the socialite. She proposes a marriage of convenience that will free her from the cads pursuing her so she can find her ideal man and allow Johnny leisure time to finish his novel. He agrees, they wed, then the company's board of directors try to place him under their control, as well. When Johnny rebels and begins dating oil heiress Hortense Burke-Meyers in retaliation, Daisy, who realizes she truly loves him, tries to win him back by having her brother-in-law Alfred Parker impersonate an old beau in an effort to make Johnny jealous.

Principal cast

*Bette Davis ..... Daisy Appleby
*George Brent ..... Johnny Jones
*Eugene Pallette ..... Mr. Meyers
*Dick Foran ..... Tommy Blake
*Craig Reynolds ..... Jorgenson
*Carol Hughes ..... Hortense Burke-Meyers
*Hobart Cavanaugh ..... DeWolfe
*Earle Foxe ..... Alfred Parker

Principal production credits

*Producers ..... Samuel Bischoff, Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. Warner
*Original Music ..... W. Franke Harling, Heinz Roemheld
*Musical Supervision ..... Leo F. Forbstein
*Cinematography ..... Arthur Edeson
*Art Direction ..... Anton Grot
*Costume Design ..... Orry-Kelly

Critical reception

In his review in the "New York Times", Frank S. Nugent observed, "With this and that device, with a deal of patterned dialogue and the transparent air of a man who recognizes the unimportance of what he has to say and yet prides himself on telling it so well that you will not mind, "The Golden Arrow" drifts rather pleasantly across the screen. It derives most of its slight strength as entertainment from the saucy performance of Miss Davis and the harried, but good-natured, expression of Mr. Brent." [ [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E02EED9133FEE3BBC4C53DFB366838D629EDE "New York Times" review] ]

"Time" described the film as "a minor comedy" and added "Although Miss Davis still can make her eyes pop and her lips droop, "The Golden Arrow" proves nothing more than that she is adept at nonchalance." [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,756051-2,00.html "Time" review] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027687/ "The Golden Arrow" at the Internet Movie Database]