1932 film
Three Wise Girls is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by William Beaudine and featuring Jean Harlow in her first starring role. The supporting cast features a young Andy Devine. This film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.
Plot
A young small-town woman heads to New York City, where she and her two friends have romantic troubles.[1][2]
Reviews
Variety Tuesday, February 9, 1932
"While the title might suggest an effort to adapt 'The Greeks Had a
Word for Them,' this is based on a far older foundation which has been
used at least once or twice each season for the past several years.
Still seems to possess an appeal and stands a chance of reaching
further down the line than the more sophisticated yarns because
it essays to point a moral."
Variety Tuesday, February 16, 1932
"Jean Harlow has often expressed a longing to play a 'good girl' In
pictures, 'Three Wise Girls' (Beacon) grants her wish. In it she's
just as good as good can be. But a good girl to picture audiences
has to do more than act that way; she's got to look that way.
However, it is a physical impossibility for Miss Harlow to assume
the straight ascetic outlines which are the basis of virtue;
to film audiences, her contours and manner of displaying them
will never allow her to sneak into the good girl category no matter
how sincerely she longs for it.
Mae Clarke, who looks like a good girl and is cast for a bad one,
and Marie Prevost, who doesn't aspire for a millionaire, but is
happy with a chauffeur and a wedding band, complete the trio of girls
laughingly called 'Wise' in this pleasant little yarn's title."
