Anna Sten, popular star of several Russian and German films before Samuel Goldwyn brought her to Hollywood, was at her youthful prime when she played The Girl with the Hatbox. In this charming comedy, she is given a supposedly worthless lottery ticket instead of her wages by an unscrupulous pair of shopkeepers. The ticket wins her a fortune, which she happily shares with her husband, whom she only agreed to marry so that they might share a room during the Moscow housing shortage. Barnet, a former boxer, was trained in Lev Kuleshov's famous school of acting. (He played the cowboy Jeb in The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West, among other wonderful character roles.) The Girl with the Hatbox, his first successful comedy as director, moves with the speed of the American comedies of the period, makes lively use of locations, and was, as historian Jay Leyda said, seasoned with satirical overtones and "bourgeois leftovers."