Reception
Both the film and the stars received good notices. Variety called her Garbo impersonation a "swell characterization and makes a highly diverting contrast when the 'princess' lapses into her real self and unloads a line of Brooklynese." Howard Barnes of the New York Herald Tribune praised Lombard's " assured and restrained portrayal - is resourceful in exploiting its comic possibilities" The New York Post 's Thornton Delehanty called her Princess the " first role in which we have admired her since the early days of her picture career." Lombard herself liked the film because it "allowed her to do what she had first practiced in childhood days back in Indiana - mimic a figure from the silver screen." However, Frank S. Nugent in his New York Times review called the film a "mild-to-boresome comedy."
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