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...under the screen name of Gerald Beresford Wicks, who has been schooled in all the arts and sciences by a bossy grandmother (May Robson), to fit him for the Wicks fame & fortune. His planned life gets out of hand when Mona Carter (Joan Blondell) crashes her car through the Wickstead fence, discovers the perfect specimen testing a Newtonian theory by falling out of a tree. With very little urging, Gerald reacts like a perfectly normal and admirably coordinated human. He pursues Mona, impresses her by flattening a tough guy (Allen Jenkins), wins another bout at a truck drivers' picnic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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