What appears to be genuine New York locations are the best thing about this flimsy screwball comedy, which veteran director Marshall Neilan produced for his longtime friend Colleen Moore. Although perhaps not everyone's idea of a chorus girl, Moore does what she can with the material given, material that suspiciously resembles several other efforts of the period, including Paramount's Wayward (1932), in which veteran stage actress Pauline Frederick played the snobbish would-be mother-in-law, and MGM's rather more posh The Girl From Missouri (1934), with Jean Harlow in the title role. Social Register, meanwhile, was co-produced by William de Mille and was an adaptation of a moderately successful 1931 Broadway play written by Hollywood's Anita Loos and John Emerson. The play, which had featured Betty Garde as the girl and Lenore Ulric as the frosty mother-in-law, featured Hans Hansen, who repeated his German-accented bit in the film version.
The Social Register (1934)
Directed by Marshall Neilan
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