Starring Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman, Eugene Pallette, Alan Dinehart, Lucile
Gleason, Louise Beavers
Directed by George Cukor

Print: black/white
Runtime: 74 min.
Genre: noir
Print quality: B

 

Kay Francis and Lilyan Tashman portray what used to be euphemistically labelled "good
time girls". They work the convention circuit, providing companionship and other favors for
tired business men—who of course lavish the girls with expensive gifts. Francis spoils this
little set-up by falling for poor but virtuous Joel McCrea. Meanwhile, Tashman continues
plying her trade with wealthy Eugene Pallette, whose wife responds not with jealousy but by
trying to imitate Tashman's style! Girls About Town is the sort of ribald film fare that would
be chased off the screen a few years later by the more stringent Production Code.