There is a strongly-written part for every single person that appears onscreen, and the cast features a half dozen leads and as many supporting parts in this 1933 Marion-Mankiewicz adaptation of the Kaufman-Ferber play. Each scene plays like a one-act that also serves to move the bigger story along, an economical and American scripting style perfected lately by Tarantino. Compare to the frayed and messy storytelling of a European comedy of manners such as Renoir's La Règle du jeu (1939).
The roles are too well balanced to permit blonde bombshell Jean Harlow to really steal the show (the way Marilyn does in All About Eve), but as I queue up more Harlow pictures I find myself wondering where in the house I could hang her poster.
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