18 Apr 1931
City Streets
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
Professional Sweetheart
I want to sin and suffer. Now I just get to suffer.
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.
Top Billed Cast
Ginger Rogers Glory
Zasu Pitts Elmerada
Frank McHugh Speed
Allen Jenkins O'Connor
Gregory Ratoff Ipswich
Franklin Pangborn Herbert
Lucien Littlefield Announcer
Edgar Kennedy Kelsey
Frank Darien Appleby
Sterling Holloway Stu
Theresa Harris Vera (uncredited)
Etta Moten Glory Eden (singing voice) (uncredited)
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