In its comic opposition of two strata of American society-the aristocracy, with their sham superiority, and the democratic sector, represented here by two bright newspaper reporters-Platinum Blonde contains the seeds of what would become Capra's favorite theme. (The dialogue is by Robert Riskin, who did a great deal to shape the film's social attitudes and those of Capra's later films.) Jean Harlow, in one of her best early roles, is the spoiled socialite who seduces newsman Robert Williams into her gilded cage and away from fellow journalist Loretta Young. When the glow wears off, “The Cinderella Man” rebels by engineering an assault on his own privilege that would make Mr. Deeds proud. Sophisticated performances by eighteen-year-old Young and twenty-year-old Harlow are a delight.