by Linda Kay

Directed by: Frank Tuttle

Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: Poor waitress Pepper Whipple (Clara Bow) falls for rich boy Jerry Hamilton (Stanley Smith) only to have problems when their fathers don’t see any possibility of success for their relationship.

Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Pepper is in the kitchen of her father’s diner when her longhair black cat comes running in through the back door chased by a collie dog.

The cat leaps to a high shelf and the dog sits below, barking. Actually the cat actor appears to have been jerked up onto the shelf by some kind of wired contrivance which continues to hold the cat awkwardly aloft on the shelf in the next shot.

Pepper hears Jerry calling for his dog named Funny Face. Jerry enters the diner and apologizes to Pepper for the fracas. The two are immediately smitten with each other and Jerry offers to get Pepper’s cat down. He reaches up behind him without looking and ends up grabbing a sponge which he hands to Pepper.

Laughing about the mistake, Jerry does reach up and bring the cat down for Pepper. She holds the cat while they say goodbye in a flirting manner. The cat slips out of Pepper’s arms and is not seen again.

Final Mewsings: Cats would prefer couples meet under less stressful circumstances.

Many thanks to Wahrhaftig for letting us know about the cat in this film.

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