Anita Loos adapted Red Headed Woman from a serialized novel after other writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, tried unsuccessfully. The wisdom of turning this drama of a relentless, unrepentant gold digger and home wrecker into a comedy, as MGM wanted, was doubted even by director Conway. Loos, having spent twenty years poking fun regardless of propriety, had no such difficulties (and doesn't avoid the occasional disturbing scene). Censors worldwide objected to the film's sexual explicitness, its mocking of marriage, as well as lack of moral consequences, unusual even in so-called pre-Code films. Lil Andrews is a fortune hunter like that other Loos woman Lorelei Lee, but without the introspection. Harlow plays a character so remorseless, so driven that we sometimes question her sanity. Yet the innocent confidence and pure glee she brings keeps the audience on her side. Add to that Loos's delight in pricking class pretensions and we begin to blame Lil's victims.-Lee Amazonas