MartinHafer When a movie stars Joel McCrea, you can pretty much guarantee it will be enjoyable...and so I wasn't surprised that I enjoyed this film. It's cute and enjoyable and Miriam Hopkins is quite nice as well.When the film begins, you learn that the heiress Dorothy Hunter is a bit of an enigma. No one knows what she looks like and folks about to meet her are curious what she looks like. However, what they don't realize is that this 'Dorothy Hunter' is a fake...hired by the real one (Hopkins) because she wants to retain her privacy. This has created a problem, however. How will she meet men and how will she handle it when she meets a nice guy? Well, she gets to try this out when Tony (McCrea) enters her life. She CONTINUES to pretend to be someone else and her assistant continues to pretend to be Dorothy. The problem is that Tony finds he's falling for BOTH women!This is a sweet film and the stars do a nice job...almost nice enough to give this one an 8. The script isn't easy to believe but the cast do their best to breath life into it.

Robert J. Maxwell I'd like to recommend this because I like the cast and director but I found it rather dull. It's not quite funny enough to be a comedy and the romance is improbable and unengaging.Miriam Hopkins is the richest girl in the world and finds it hard to attract men, because the men don't want to be seen as opportunists. (That proposition is funnier than any of the gags in the movie.) So she switches places with her secretary, the good-natured Fay Wray.In this guise, she meets Joel McRea, an honest, ordinary sort of bloke. One of Hopkins' staff looks into his background. Not a great deal of money, but the scion of an old Boston family, a broker on Wall Street or something, and a graduate degree from Yale. "About average," says Hopkins' adviser, the avuncular Henry Stephenson, in all seriousness. That's funnier than any of the gags too.Hopkins decides to put McRea to the test by pushing him in the direction of Fay Wray, who McRea still believes to be the richest girl in the world. Will McRea give up Hopkins (who is REALLY the richest girl in the world) for Fay Wray (who is only PRETENDING to be the richest girl in the world but is already married to King Kong)? Are you kidding? Actually, I would have given up the smitten Miriam Hopkins for Fay Wray in an instant. Wray is better looking, unwittingly sexy, and even as a secretary, she still makes a lot more money than I do. If Fay Wray didn't swoon once within my cloud of pheromones, if she didn't fall for me immediately, I'd have beaten her into it.

Michael_Elliott Richest Girl in the World, The (1934) ** (out of 4)Miriam Hopkins plays Dorothy Hunter, the richest girl in the world who also happens to be a recluse. Mrs. Hunter always sends her secretary (Fay Wray) out to pretend to be here. One day at a party Hunter, pretending to be the secretary, meets a man (Joel McCrea) who claims that he could fall in love with a rich woman even if she didn't have money. This RKO comedy was certainly inspired by Barbara Hutton, who at the time really was the richest girl in the world. The built up love story was probably the creation of someone in the RKO front office but the end results are fairly disappointing considering the cast involved. The story itself is the biggest problem as is goes from A to B to C without anything new being done and by the time the film is over you can't help but feel as if you've witness nothing but one cliché after another. The highlight of the film would be a scene where McCrea and Wray are out in a canoe when a jealous Hopkins comes up in a large part to tip them over. This sequence was a very funny one but there aren't too many laughs after it. McCrea and Hopkins made enough films together to be charming and they do that here. The two of them bring their characters to life even though the screenplay doesn't offer them much. Wray is also pretty good in her role but again, the screenplay doesn't give you anything. In the end this is a completely forgettable movie that most people will overlook so unless you're a fan of the stars then it's best to just keep this one in the vault.

blanche-2 Miriam Hopkins was an excellent Broadway actress who found a wonderful career in films, even if she never achieved legendary status. In this 1934 movie, she plays the richest woman in the world, undoubtedly a take-off on Barbara Hutton. Desiring to find a man who can love her for herself and not her money, she and her secretary switch identities when there's a potential suitor around.The game gets dicey when Hopkins meets the man of her dreams, Joel McCrea, and let's face it, he was the man of many women's dreams - tall, handsome, boyish, and athletic. The story continues from there with the usual mix-ups.As one of the posters pointed out, the secretary, played by the beautiful Fay Wray, is a married woman, which means that Hopkins is actually posing as a married woman and Wray as a single one - this is a long way of saying the film was probably released before the code hit.Hopkins and McCrea made a good duo, and good thing, because they appeared together several times. This is a pleasant and short comedy, worth seeing for its stars and '30s ambiance.