This lively romp in the hard-boiled, early thirties "gold-diggers" tradition stars Kay Francis and Joel McCrea but gets most of its sparkle from wisecracking supporting actors Lilyan Tashman and Eugene Pallette. The story has a certain "whore by any other name" cynicism that anticipates Cukor's later classic The Women, especially in the scene in which the girls raise some quick cash by auctioning off their ill-got gowns, furs and jewels to their gold-digging friends. In his book On Cukor, Gavin Lambert suggests that Girls About Town holds up best of Cukor's early films at Paramount, although today it remains one of his least seen films. "Very lightly and deftly done," Lambert writes, "the acting is real movie acting and Lilyan Tashman is brilliant with something of a Harlow quality... The comedy is very sharply paced."