Critical Reception
In one scene, Temple attempts suicide. A critic wrote that it was too bad the attempt failed.
The New York Times thought the script amateurish and of Reagan and Temple wrote, "Ronald Reagan keeps as straight a face as he can while doing what must have struck him as the silliest job of his career ut it is poor, little put-upon Shirley who looks most ridiculous through it all. She acts with the mopish dejection of a school-child who has just been robbed of a two-scoop ice cream cone."
The movie was included in the popular 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
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