Top Billed Cast

Barbara Stanwyck
Lily Powers
George Brent
Courtland Trenholm
Donald Cook
Ned Stevens
Alphonse Ethier
Adolf Cragg
Henry Kolker
J.R. Carter
Margaret Lindsay
Ann Carter
Arthur Hohl
Ed Sipple
John Wayne
Jimmy McCoy Jr.
Robert Barrat
Nick Powers
Douglass Dumbrille
Brody
Theresa Harris
Chico
Joan Barclay
Job Seeker (uncredited)
Charles Coleman
Hodges (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Speakeasy Waiter (uncredited)
Grace Hayle
Mrs. Hemingway (uncredited)
Maynard Holmes
Pratt - Personnel Office (uncredited)
Nat Pendleton
Stolvich - Laborer (uncredited)
Edward Van Sloan
Jameson - Bank Director (uncredited)
Toby Wing
Office Worker (uncredited)
James Bush
Paris Bank Clerk (uncredited)
Jack Curtis
Speakeasy Customer (uncredited)
Frank Darien
Paris Bank Agent (uncredited)
John Elliott
Bank Director (uncredited)
Harry Gribbon
Doorman (uncredited)
Edward LeSaint
Bank Director (uncredited)
Reginald Mason
Gault - Bank Director (uncredited)
Spec O'Donnell
Office Boy (uncredited)
Henry Otho
Laborer (uncredited)
Donna Mae Roberts
Office Worker (uncredited)
Matty Roubert
Newsboy (uncredited)
Cliff Saum
Laborer (uncredited)
Charles Sellon
Vanderlure - Bank Director (uncredited)
Harry Semels
Speakeasy Drunk (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
Laborer (uncredited)
Jacques Vanaire
Paris Bank Clerk (uncredited)
Sailor Vincent
Laborer (uncredited)
Renee Whitney
Office Worker (uncredited)
Josephine Whittell
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
Laborer (uncredited)
Arthur De Kuh
Lutza (uncredited)
Harry Forsman
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
James Murray
Brakeman (uncredited)
Dick Winslow
Office Boy (uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Sat Sep 24 2022

Barbara Stanwyck is at the top of her game in this cracking story of a young girl "Lily" who thanks to her pal "Cragg" (Alphonse Ethier) and some ideology from Nietzsche quickly discovers that she can use her femininity and her brains to get on in life. When her exploitative father has a rather unfortunate accident with a still, she heads to the big city where she shrewdly works her way through the bosses (including a young John Wayne) right to the top - accumulating wealth and wrecking relationships and marriages as she goes. Will she manage to get away with it all, or will she get her comeupp...