Hap Harrigan is a construction worker who spots socialite Juliette through a window of the building next door and is instantly smitten. She falls for him as well and they begin a romance. But since her family wouldn't approve, she tells them he's actually an architect. Things get sticky when the man she broke up with plans to sabotage their impending engagement.
Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times said, "Under the rather self-consciously moviesque title of The Hot Heiress, the team of Fields, Rodgers and Hart offer at the Strand a musical comedy romance of poverty and riches. The story is too fragile and stale even for the films, whatever Mr. Fields may have read about screen stories, but the comedy is bright and the tunes are in the gay and lilting Rodgers and Hart manner."[3]
A copy resides in the Library of Congress collection.[4] On April 4, 2018, Warner Archive released it as a Region 1 made-on-demand DVD. It also airs occasionally on Turner Classic Movies.
^Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress (<-book title) p.83 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
