The first film version of Philip Barry's clever and popular play about the prejudices of the idle rich is viewed as a delightful rediscovery by many critics: a wonderfully unstagy early talkie, and a stylish production that compares favorably with George Cukor's elegant 1938 remake with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Ann Harding was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Linda Seton, wealthy, romantic, and, unlike her materialistic sister Julia (Mary Astor), inclined toward the shocking view of Julia's fiancé (Robert Ames) that the pleasures of aristocratic existence are nothing compared with the joys of nonconformity. Edward Everett Horton creates the droll figure of Nick Potter that he would repeat in the 1938 version.