The fashion world makes an unusual setting for scam artists, but this film combines two popular elements of 1930s Hollywood: charming swindlers and lavish production numbers. Orry-Kelly's sophisticated garments are sufficiently magnificent not to be upstaged by the staggering Busby Berkeley treatment. The models in the fashion show are maximally objectified, with every movement precisely choreographed. The musical production numbers, a profusion of feathers and human harps, typically of Berkeley owe more to fetish than fashion. The dapper William Powell exhibits his dependably deft touch as the affable confidence man, while Bette Davis, playing a designer, although smartly garbed is uncharacteristically timorous here-perhaps feeling overwhelmed by the spectacle to come. (She's a more confident fashion plate in Ex-Lady, another artist role.) But she still looks great. Orry-Kelly dressed Davis for much of his career, from period costumes to plain-Jane frocks to glamorous gowns, one of Hollywood's most successful designer-performer collaborations.-Lee Amazonas