“That mischievous but lovable colleen Paddy Adair, of Gertrude Page's novel, is now to be seen in all her prankish moods on the screen of the Radio City Music Hall,” announced the N.Y. Times reviewer in August 1933. “Janet Gaynor plays the role and it is one of the best she has had....”
In reviving Paddy..., William K. Everson calls it “a whimsical little romance, reminiscent of Daddy Long Legs, charming and wistful but often with real and unexpected emotional depth. Harry Lachmann was an often wasted and now almost forgotten director, and this very pleasing film reminds us how good he was.”