Ladies in Love

In her last film for Fox, Gaynor appears alongside Constance Bennett and Loretta Young in a romantic drama about three girlfriends sharing a deluxe apartment while they search for husbands in modern-day Budapest. Gaynor got top billing as the sensible gal enamored of a dignified doctor (Don Ameche). A tyro Tyrone Power makes the most of his small part as Young's aristocratic love interest; his popularity in the picture convinced the studio to groom him for even greater stardom. The New York Times reported on-set friction between the leading actresses, claiming that “each of the young ladies is known for being temperamental and diplomacy has been called into use more than once.” The film's storyline, based on the play Three Girls by Ladislaus Bus-Fekete, became a virtual template at the studio, inspiring later iterations of the formula such as How to Marry a Millionaire (1953).

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