Loose Ankles (1930)

A young heiress (Loretta Young) inherits a large sum of money from her grandmother but there's a stipulation in the will. She will get the money only after she marries pending the approval of her two prudish spinster aunts (Louise Fazenda, Ethel Wales). Furious at not being able to marry who she pleases, she intends to create a scandal by hiring a gigolo (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) to compromise her. Based on the play by Sam Janney and directed by Ted Wilde (an Oscar nominee for SPEEDY). This being a pre-code film, Loretta Young is livelier than usual and dare I say it ... sexy! As far as pre-code comedies go, this one is rather tame. The comedic highlight of the movie is when the spinster aunts (Fazenda, Wales) go to a prohibition speakeasy in the company of two gigolos (Edward Nugent, Norman Selby) and get drunk on "punch". This was a remake of the 1926 silent film LADIES AT PLAY with Louise Fazenda recreating her spinster aunt role here. Maybe not the best example of pre code comedy but it moves along quickly. With Inez Courtney and Raymond Keane.