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Although Barbara Stanwyck would later dismiss Shopworn as "one of those terrible pictures they sandwiched in when you started," she offers her usual competent performance as the waitress unfairly convicted and sent to reform school on a charge of lewdness. In Columbia's pre-release version, Stanwyck's Kitty apparently did enter the world's oldest profession, but although the Production Code Administration was not as severe in 1932 as it would become two years later, the censor made the producers alter the scenario prior to release. We shall never know how the original Shopworn would have played, but it is still a bit alarming to see the future Aunt Em (Clara Blandick) threaten to shoot poor Stanwyck. One question remains, however: is the rather stolid Regis Toomey really worth all this fuss?