Anita Loos collaborated with her husband John Emerson on this script for her friend Jean Harlow. Loos was a past master on golddiggers, not to mention wisecracking females, from her novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and if that 1925 book's bite is lessened in this golddigging comedy (how to marry a millionaire and protect your virginity), it says a lot about the impact of the Production Code on Harlow's career, and Loos's. What everyone loved about Harlow-her raffishness, her brassiness, her tender vulgarity-was used against her in this film. Eve Golden writes in Platinum Girl: "(Harlow's) Eadie was frankly ashamed of herself. Even Kitty Packard in Dinner at Eight had clawed her way up the social ladder with infectious glee, but Eadie Chapman honestly felt unworthy of the millionaires she tried to capture. (Even) Adrian's costumes were uncharacteristically designed to make Jean look cheap and vulgar."