A satire on press-agentry, featuring Lee Tracy as an ad-man/con-man determined to make Lupe Velez an overnight sensation, and delightful comedy from Frank Morgan as a neurotic producer. “Gregory LaCava, best remembered for the 1936 My Man Godfrey, was a curious director, erratic, undisciplined, open in his contempt for front-office phonies.... The Half-Naked Truth achieved a near-notorious reputation at the time (unjustified then, almost inexplicable today) which somehow clung to it through the years. It has become virtually a lost film, seldom if ever shown on television and never revived theatrically.... The Half-Naked Truth is an enjoyable little frolic, LaCava's crackling pace and Tracy's rapid-fire dialogue delivery keeping it on the move even when nothing very much is happening. As in many LaCava films, some elements are totally unexpected--as in the Lubitsch-like sequence where office noises somehow form a song--while an enjoyable bonus too is the quite extensive New York location work.” William K. Everson