Recommended. This pre-code movie is sort of a scandalous comedy. It's hard to take it any other way when every character is so deliciously lascivious. Jean Harlow (Dinner At Eight) is the host of this priapismic party and welcomes all the guests. Her character, Lil, is as unredeemed a leading lady as any before or since. Harlow doesn’t sleep her way to the top; she’s wide awake on every dirty little floor; however, the objects of her acquisition are so morally moronic that little sympathy is aroused. The movie was scripted by the great Anita Loos (Gentleman Prefer Blondes) . . . who was never called schmaltzy. Red-Headed Woman is often compared to Baby Face - - another pre-code, round-heeler rodeo - - and the latter is the better of the two. But, in the other hand, Baby Face does go limp at the climax with a feckless ending of remorse. Red-Headed Woman has no such dysfunction.
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