directed by Nick Grinde
57 minutes
Florence "Flip" Lane (Jane Wyman) and her father, H. Theordore Lane (Berton Churchill), are carnival hucksters. They put on a "public wedding" in an effort to make money. Flip gets married to Anthony Burke (William Hopper), an artist they met earlier that day, in front of an audience who have bought tickets to see the wedding. Their money making scheme don't exactly work out when some of their compatriots steal the box office money. The judge who they hired to perform the ceremony turns out to be the genuine article, which adds another layer of complication to the plot as Flip is now Mrs. Burke.
This is Jane Wyman's first leading role. Actress Marie Wilson and director Nick Grinde were a married couple. Eddie "Rochester" Anderson who would later become famous as a sidekick to Jack Benny has a small part in the movie. The Judge is played by Jimmie Fox.
This feels a bit like an abbreviated version of a longer story or a story that has been manufactured by pulling together a bunch of scenes from various sources. The whole does not feel greater than the sum of its parts.
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